httpd spinning out of control + xcalloc: allocation error, size = 476
Yesterday, my httpd processes were spinning out of control and eating up all cpu and ram. This would happen within minutes fo a reboot.
Eventually, I decided to get a few hours of sleep and come back. (No customers on this server, but I do have personal websites there.) Anyway, I expected no response from the server this morning. Instead, everything seems almost normal again.
I left my ssh client connected, and this command line error showed up:
xcalloc: allocation error, size = 476
Recent odd entries in my apache logs, with a few of each:
Ouch! malloc failed in malloc_block()
[warn] child process 621 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[error] (32)Broken pipe: accept: (client socket)
I had 28 Broken pipe errors within 10 seconds.
I'm not even sure where to begin. I have done some searches and have seen it suggested this could be related to php/MySQL.
Does anyone see anything familiar? Any suggestions?
