[CentOS-virt] VMs died due to hanging httpd processes
Jerry Franz
jfranz at freerun.comSun Dec 12 17:41:52 UTC 2010
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On 12/12/2010 06:40 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Monitoring show that in a timeframe of about 3 minutes the load on the > systems shot up to over 400 before they died. Since MaxClients is set to > 512 I suspect that the processes had a mass-lockup with each process > constantly causing a load of 1 (similar to what happens when a process > hangs on an NFS mount point). One of the two VMs acts as a NFS server and > exports directories to the other VM (but doesn't mount any external NFS > sources itself). > > What is strange is that both system locked up at the same time since they > are running on two different physical hosts. The hosts run Centos 5.3 while > the VMs run Centos 5.5 as PV Xen guests. > > Since the call trace looks identical on both cases I wonder if anyone has > an idea what exactly went wrong here? That sounds like it might be a 'slow http' DOS attack. http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/ http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2010/11/advanced-topic-of-the-week-mitigating-slow-http-dos-attacks.html -- Benjamin Franz
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