The server was ok Friday, Saturday and Sunday which is when the site traffic is quiet. It crashed at 1pm approx UK time on Monday and today (Tuesday). Allen removed IIP and the beta so 6.2.3 is running. This is what my hosts said to me today when it crashed again:
Duncan,
Here is a screen shot of TOP from when the box died.
last pid: 26035; load averages: 127.01, 107.43, 64.99 up 0+22:45:40 12:28:22
398 processes: 196 running, 201 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 2.1% user, 0.0% nice, 3.7% system, 0.9% interrupt, 93.3% idle
Mem: 156M Active, 7228K Inact, 75M Wired, 924K Cache, 34M Buf, 644K Free
Swap: 544M Total, 514M Used, 30M Free, 94% Inuse, 318M In, 318M Out
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
5745 root 28 0 2368K 636K RUN 1:25 1.03% 0.10% top
25893 apache 28 0 11772K 1712K RUN 0:00 0.05% 0.05% httpd
155 mysql -18 0 21532K 380K RUN 65:44 0.00% 0.00% mysqld
15173 admin 2 0 2296K 0K RUN 0:58 0.00% 0.00% <top>
188 root 2 0 10040K 1964K select 0:28 0.00% 0.00% httpd
5740 admin 2 0 5292K 0K select 0:07 0.00% 0.00% <sshd>
25039 apache 2 0 12684K 0K sbwait 0:04 0.00% 0.00% <httpd>
24991 apache -18 0 11452K 2108K RUN 0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25073 apache -22 0 11512K 1984K swread 0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25014 apache -14 0 11452K 1944K inode 0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25076 apache -18 0 12692K 2604K RUN 0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25226 apache -14 0 11332K 2436K inode 0:03 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25225 apache -22 0 11544K 2520K swread 0:03 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25248 apache -18 0 11356K 1756K RUN 0:03 0.00% 0.00% httpd
25199 apache -14 0 11092K 2176K inode 0:03 0.00% 0.00% httpd
173 root 2 0 4304K 244K select 0:03 0.00% 0.00% httpsd
25207 apache -18 0 11544K 1264K RUN 0:03 0.00% 0.00% httpd
I dont see any reason that the load should be so high, except that php is spawning httpd so much and not closing. Were there any hacks applied to your site?
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Any ideas gents?
