Apache is making the LOAD SHOOT VERY HIGH...Need help...
I have a cpanel/whm, centos 4 server with apache 1.3.34 and php 4.4.2.
Most of the day, the server is just fine, but every few hours or so randomly spread throughout the day, the serverload will SHOOT up into the hundreds .
I have a:
AMD 3000+
512 mb ram
server, and while most of the ram is usually used up, the page swap file has 900000 mb ( almost a gig ) free memory, and sometimes 200 of that is used up but that's about it.
What can I do to prevent these load sky rockets? I just rebuilt apache clean, and mod evasive and mod sec have not been included yet because it didn't help earlier...
thing I don't understand, is i've been monitoring the server with /server-status/ all the time and well, the number of connections is always like 110-160 ( I think 150,160 is the cap).
Server Version: Apache
Server Built: Jan 26 2006 16:47:09
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Current Time: Thursday, 02-Feb-2006 15:03:42 CST
Restart Time: Thursday, 02-Feb-2006 15:00:52 CST
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 2 minutes 50 seconds
Total accesses: 2192 - Total Traffic: 37.9 MB
CPU Usage: u118.43 s7.25 cu0 cs0 - 73.9% CPU load
12.9 requests/sec - 228.2 kB/second - 17.7 kB/request
73 requests currently being processed, 1 idle servers
Server Built: Jan 26 2006 16:47:09
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Current Time: Thursday, 02-Feb-2006 15:03:42 CST
Restart Time: Thursday, 02-Feb-2006 15:00:52 CST
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 2 minutes 50 seconds
Total accesses: 2192 - Total Traffic: 37.9 MB
CPU Usage: u118.43 s7.25 cu0 cs0 - 73.9% CPU load
12.9 requests/sec - 228.2 kB/second - 17.7 kB/request
73 requests currently being processed, 1 idle servers
How can i diagnose this and fix it please?
Thanks in advance
