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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:44 -1000
From:      "Peter Stubbs" <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   cern httpd hanging about
Message-ID:  <8B9F16A39FC@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>

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Hi all,

I'm having a problem with CERN http on my web server. Every so often 
I check the swap use and find that it's too high, about 40% when 15-30% 
is normal for 15-20 proxy web clients.

ps reveals that there are old httpd's hanging about with info like

166		??	I		1:41:02 /usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr....
2604	??	IWN		0:00.10	/usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr....
..
2880	??	IWN		0:00.11	/usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr....
2901	??	IWN		0:00.12	/usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr....
12340	p1	R+		0:00.04 ps -ax


When I kill off the first httpd the rest also go, and the swap comes 
back to normal. When I say first I mean 2604, not 166 which is 
started by rc.local

Does anyone know why this happens, and if I can fix it. Is there any 
danger of the system running out of memory from these hanging about, 
particularly if I go away for a month?

TIA,
Peter


Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS.
ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432



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