On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John Campbell <jcampbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to thank everyone for their help and advice. I don't > think it is impossible to figure out what the underlying issue is, but > I made a bunch of changes based on the recommendations here. > > 1) I switched the hardware (pretty easy, since it's just a Xen instance) > 2) I upgraded Apache and PHP > 3) I changed max requests per child to a sensible number rather than > unlimited. I think log rotate would achieve a similar effect by > restarting the webserver every day and I'll eventually go that route. > 4) I set up monitoring scripts that will dump the output of `ps` and > `apache2ctl fullstatus` to a log in the event the apache craps out > again, and I'll be sure to get a gdb dump if it happens again. > 5) For other reasons, I reduced the Keep-Alive time and moved most of > the static content to Amazon's CDN. > > Thanks for the help. > > Regards, > John Campbell
Wow, good thing it crashed. It sounds like you have a much more robust rig now! _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
