For a week or so, I have high load (2.5-3.0 and higher) by some Apache2 processes. top: Code: top - 20:18:52 up 216 days, 21:59, 2 users, load average: 2.17, 2.14, 2.22 Tasks: 143 total, 2 running, 141 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 41.7%us, 10.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 43.0%id, 5.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3501248k total, 3262216k used, 239032k free, 71156k buffers Swap: 3879608k total, 6556k used, 3873052k free, 1763000k cached Top also says, that problem is in apache 2 processes: Code: 25118 www-data 20 0 57804 30m 5344 S 62 0.9 0:06.02 apache2 24741 www-data 20 0 65432 35m 5888 R 17 1.1 0:16.92 apache2 Now, lsof -p 25118 says: Code: apache2 25118 www-data 39w REG apache2 25118 www-data 115w REG 9,0 9496 11617510 /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/different_site.tld/error.log apache2 25118 www-data 116w REG 9,0 0 11174773 /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/different_site.tld/error.log apache2 25118 www-data 117w REG 9,0 67835 13705429 /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/different_site.tld/error.log apache2 25118 www-data 118w REG 9,0 1132 11985162 /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/different_site.tld/error.log apache2 25118 www-data 119w REG 9,0 2105 11953680 /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/different_site.tld/error.log apache2 25118 www-data 120w REG apache2 25118 www-data 158u 0000 0,7 0 13 anon_inode apache2 25118 www-data 159w FIFO 0,6 311222313 pipe apache2 25118 www-data 160w REG 9,0 390207 10831840 /var/log/apache2/access.log apache2 25118 www-data 161w REG 9,0 0 10829864 /var/run/apache2/ssl_mutex (deleted) apache2 25118 www-data 162r FIFO 0,6 311222319 pipe apache2 25118 www-data 163w FIFO 0,6 311222319 pipe apache2 25118 www-data 164w FIFO 0,6 311222315 pipe apache2 25118 www-data 165r FIFO 0,6 311222320 pipe apache2 25118 www-data 166w FIFO 0,6 311222316 pipe apache2 25118 www-data 167w FIFO 0,6 311222320 pipe Note: different_site is actualy real website. As far as I can see, reason for load is apache2 writing custom error logs. Now, I need your suggestion, how to fix this? Disable apache2 error logging? Or am I interpreting readings totaly wrong? I'm running Etch with ISPC3. Any comment, advice is appritiated.
Hi, The question here is...what's in this error.log file? Try to check it, maybe you get many errors there for a reason. But don't alarm you, this load average is small. Cheers
I have seen a strange behavior before where my apache server would actually crash after a lot of traffic. I finally figured out the keepalive sessions were lingering along and ultimately accumulating. you may be able to tweak the keepalive, and number of process parameters for them to be killed off more quickly. This may be an off shot, but also worth a shot.
