On 12/28/2010 01:41 PM, james wrote: > >Do you have everything *else* updated? And what kind of web service > >are you running? > > >There's a lot of third party freeware and commercial tools that was > >not written with any kind of resource management in mind, and which > >may require a simple web server restart on a regular baris to free > >memory. (MusicBrainz: I remember porting MusicBrainz.....) > > Yes, all the packages are up to date. General web services -- static > HTML, and the rest is mainly wordpress. > > You may be right about the restart, but I would like to know WHAT is > crashing my web server regardless. We are not running any shiftily > coded sites or apps on this server that I'm aware of (obviously > something is shifty!). Is anyone aware of any other methods for > drilling into the problem? > > >Look in /var/log/http/*. > > Yes, these are the web server logs I am referring to having checked. > > >Do you have a search engine scanning your web server? > > Hmm, no, nothing systematic. The usual crawlers out there but nothing > we are doing. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I think the answer will come from analyzing your log files and possibly running something under cron (or in a shell script that wakes up periodically) to gather memory/resource utilization. Even look at a web log analyzer, like analog and see if there is a correlation between web server hits and resource usage. You could also try upgrading your web server/plugins or checking bugzilla for related bugs. Nataraj -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101228/79a8dd93/attachment-0005.html>