Apache, flood of 'OPTIONS' requests from localhost

[womble]

Hi all,

On my cPanel server Apache is being bombarded with requests:

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2009:14:45:25 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2009:14:45:26 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2009:14:45:27 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2009:14:45:29 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2009:14:45:31 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -

As you can imagine, I reach MaxClients within a couple of minutes, and the web server becomes useless.

Any idea what could be doing this please? Obviously it's something on the local machine generating them,

[Infopro]

Please refer to this post: http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/apache-s...us-139289.html

[womble]

Thank you, yes, I've been looking at that thread (and the links on it).

It seems a bit excessive to be checking every second... is there a way I can change the rate, or turn it off completely. While I can't be certain that this is the cause of the high load, it'd be nice to be able to eliminate it from the possibilities

[yayyo]

Hi Womble (have you been to Wimbledon Common lately?)

I am just curious as to why you started a new topic/thread when as you say, "Thank you, yes, I've been looking at that thread (and the links on it)." ?

No biggie, it's just that now I have had to subscribe to this topic as well as the other one to catch any replies.

Cheers.

[womble]

Sorry, maybe I should have just resuscitated that thread rather than start a new one. On the other hand, I didn't want to hijack the OP's thread. Still, if any mods want to close this thread or merge it, feel free (not that you need my permission)