On 12/28/2010 5:18 PM, Nataraj wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos What's your http.conf? There's an setting where you can limit the amount of time a process/thread stays alive..you can limit ram usage by lowering that value. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101228/4ab7395b/attachment-0005.html>