Problems with nobody procceses

[123addone]

Hi,

i changed hosting from slow one to faster one and i started getting problems with nobody process.

nobody 1492 0.7 0.8 56880 17476 ? S 05:16 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 1853 0.4 0.9 58276 18892 ? R 05:14 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 1856 1.5 0.8 58268 18868 ? S 05:16 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 3942 0.0 0.5 52756 11992 ? S 05:15 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 7279 0.8 0.7 54612 15144 ? S 05:16 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
root 8161 0.0 0.0 3912 676 pts/1 S+ 05:17 0:00 grep nobody
nobody 11772 1.0 1.0 61092 21720 ? S 05:13 0:02 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 13757 0.7 0.9 60112 20848 ? S 05:13 0:01 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 14009 0.7 0.9 58560 19104 ? S 05:15 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 17784 0.0 0.5 52756 11992 ? S 05:16 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 19596 1.7 1.0 59888 21440 ? S 05:12 0:04 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 29797 0.0 0.5 52756 12052 ? S 05:16 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 30523 0.8 1.0 61384 21840 ? S 05:15 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 30635 0.6 0.9 58564 20184 ? S 05:14 0:01 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 32344 1.2 1.0 61132 21424 ? S 05:16 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 32441 0.0 0.5 52756 12032 ? S 05:14 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
nobody 32443 0.0 0.5 52756 11992 ? S 05:14 0:00 /usr/local/apac he/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL


and they are making some kind of peaks to apear and they crashes server because they uses all available memory.

this server runs 99% Wordpress blogs and few sites with a lot of images.

is there any solutions to solve those peaks and downtime ?

[ramprage]

Depending on your servers hardware, you can optimize the Apache configuration and also install some caching software. Additionally Wordpress has some of it's own caching tools like WP Super Cache you can install to speed up page loading.

Running everything under nobody is a security risk. You're best off to use Suphp where PHP processes are run under each user.

[123addone]

Depending on your servers hardware, you can optimize the Apache configuration and also install some caching software. Additionally Wordpress has some of it's own caching tools like WP Super Cache you can install to speed up page loading.

Running everything under nobody is a security risk. You're best off to use Suphp where PHP processes are run under each user.

as i found suphp is installed and apache cache is installed too but after installation of Apache cache httpd (2.2.14 (Unix)) failed and i'w waiting for server techs to fix this.

i have even added wp super cache to all blogs that are getting more them few hundred visitors per day, but that don't help there are still allot of nobody processes that uses all memory and server crashes.

so i don't know what's wrong there, is it server configuration mistake or something wrong with my websites.

[ramprage]

It's possible they are fake HTTPD processes and actually perl bot scripts running. You can grab a copy of Nobody Check - Nobody Check Security Tool - Projects (use to be my process checking software but should still do the trick).

You can also run this in shell
ls -lah /proc/processIDhere
cat /proc/processIDhere/environ

Replace processIDhere with some of the process numbers of those Nobody Apache processes.

[123addone]

It's possible they are fake HTTPD processes and actually perl bot scripts running. You can grab a copy of Nobody Check - Nobody Check Security Tool - Projects (use to be my process checking software but should still do the trick).

You can also run this in shell
ls -lah /proc/processIDhere
cat /proc/processIDhere/environ

Replace processIDhere with some of the process numbers of those Nobody Apache processes.

i have installed that nobody check will give it a try.

any other ideas about this kind of problems ?

[ramprage]

You can contact me directly from the website in my signature and we can arrange that I take a look if you like.

[123addone]

You can contact me directly from the website in my signature and we can arrange that I take a look if you like.

sent you an email.


any other people that had or still have similar issue ?

[ModServ]

You can pm me or send me an email in my signature if you like, I've just solved this problem now for one of my customers.

[123addone]

You can pm me or send me an email in my signature if you like, I've just solved this problem now for one of my customers.

could you tell me here how you solved it i would help allot of people that reads this forum.

[ModServ]

About making optimization to apache, mysql, Keep in mind that this depends on your hardware. It differs from a server to other.