On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:32:00PM +0200, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
> The Apache-Version is the same, so is the configuration.
> The only thing that I noticed is that one apache instance sucks up to
> 99% CPU... It never uses less than 30% ..
> And since this is a Compaq Server with Dual P3 1GHz and 2GB RAM I doubt
> that this is right (tm).
Do you use PHP (and possibly MySQL) on that machine? I saw that problem
on my Slackware box a few months ago. I never did find the solution tho,
as I upgraded to Apache2. I did confirm that the bug didn't occur when
PHP wasn't being used for me. For some reason, PHP seemed to be in a
massive loop after the page was sent, eating CPU and memory.

A good temporary workaround is to have a little watcher shell script
that looks for any apache processes that have been eating >80% CPU for
the all of the last 30 seconds (I checked at 30 second intervals) and
send a SIGKILL to them.

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