There appears to be an issue with Apache web server not being able to recycle one of the httpd processes. It appears to be stuck and consumed 100% CPU power. This is happening despite the following settings as appeared on my phpinfo() page. Max Requests Per Child: 10000 - Keep Alive: on - Max Per Connection: 100 To illustrate this, please look at PID 4188 from the following 2 "top" capture over a span of 3 days. Any additional details required please let me know. This is running on CentOS 5.5 64-bit 2.6.18-194.el5. 1 day later top - 08:11:06 up 122 days, 11:05, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.04, 0.97 Tasks: 135 total, 3 running, 132 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 5.7%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.7%id, 1.7%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 73.4%us, 26.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2059516k total, 1906896k used, 152620k free, 154016k buffers Swap: 4095992k total, 80k used, 4095912k free, 1005564k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4188 daemon 25 0 115m 18m 2948 R 100.2 0.9 43:25.32 httpd 6602 daemon 15 0 109m 12m 2856 S 2.7 0.6 0:00.17 httpd 6678 daemon 15 0 105m 8416 2600 S 1.3 0.4 0:00.05 httpd 3 days later top - 06:16:14 up 124 days, 9:10, 1 user, load average: 1.03, 1.20, 1.18 Tasks: 128 total, 3 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 12.3%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 85.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 73.8%us, 26.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2059516k total, 1923432k used, 136084k free, 157940k buffers Swap: 4095992k total, 80k used, 4095912k free, 986552k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4188 daemon 25 0 115m 18m 2948 R 99.9 0.9 2806:08 httpd 645 daemon 15 0 108m 10m 2852 S 4.7 0.5 0:00.15 httpd 550 daemon 15 0 109m 12m 2868 S 2.7 0.6 0:00.56 httpd 632 daemon 15 0 108m 11m 2836 S 2.7 0.6 0:00.15 httpd 633 daemon 15 0 109m 11m 2832 S 2.0 0.6 0:00.19 httpd 647 daemon 16 0 106m 8860 2740 S 1.7 0.4 0:00.05 httpd 476 daemon 16 0 108m 11m 2932 S 0.7 0.6 0:01.63 httpd
processes don't exit until they're done processing all requests they've accepted. If a process is looping, it will never have a chance to exit. Where does a backtrace of the process say it's looping?
(In reply to comment #1) > processes don't exit until they're done processing all requests they've > accepted. > > If a process is looping, it will never have a chance to exit. Where does a > backtrace of the process say it's looping? Sorry how can I do a back trace when this happens again? Is there any log where I can find this information?
Hi, this just happened again today, since a restart was done about a week ago. The same symptoms occurred. Any idea if I can turn on more logging to see what a specific httpd process is doing?
gdb -p 4188 (or whatever the pid of the looping process is) bt full To be really useful, you would need the debugging symbols installed (don't know how that works under centos). Maybe http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html helps.
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