Strange Apache issue.

[Spaceh]

My apache is killing me since this morning, high server load and memory usage, and now i am getting this:

Current Time: Monday, 06-Jun-2005 20:23:45 WEST
Restart Time: Monday, 06-Jun-2005 20:01:55 WEST
Parent Server Generation: 3
Server uptime: 21 minutes 50 seconds
134 requests currently being processed, 6 idle servers

WRRW_WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW_WWWWWWWWWWWWWW_WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW_WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW_WWW_W
WWWWWWWWWWW.W...................................................
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Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing, "." Open slot with no current process

PID Key:

1660 in state: W , 1661 in state: R , 1664 in state: R
1666 in state: W , 1667 in state: _ , 1670 in state: W
1674 in state: W , 1675 in state: W , 1681 in state: W
1682 in state: W , 1683 in state: W , 1684 in state: W
1690 in state: W , 1691 in state: W , 1692 in state: W
1693 in state: W , 1694 in state: W , 1695 in state: W
1696 in state: W , 1719 in state: W , 1711 in state: W
1720 in state: W , 1725 in state: W , 1726 in state: W
1727 in state: W , 1728 in state: W , 1729 in state: W
1730 in state: W , 1731 in state: W , 1732 in state: _
1733 in state: W , 1734 in state: W , 1735 in state: W
1736 in state: W , 1737 in state: W , 1738 in state: W
1739 in state: W , 1740 in state: W , 1741 in state: W
1743 in state: W , 1745 in state: W , 1746 in state: W
1747 in state: W , 1748 in state: W , 1749 in state: _
1750 in state: W , 1751 in state: W , 1752 in state: W
1753 in state: W , 1754 in state: W , 1757 in state: W
1758 in state: W , 1759 in state: W , 1760 in state: W
1761 in state: W , 1762 in state: W , 1763 in state: W
1764 in state: W , 1765 in state: W , 1766 in state: W
1769 in state: W , 1770 in state: W , 1771 in state: W
1773 in state: W , 1774 in state: W , 1775 in state: W
6216 in state: W , 1777 in state: W , 1778 in state: W
1779 in state: W , 1780 in state: W , 1781 in state: W
6285 in state: W , 6288 in state: W , 1784 in state: W
1785 in state: W , 1786 in state: W , 1787 in state: W
6289 in state: W , 1789 in state: W , 1790 in state: W
1806 in state: W , 6292 in state: W , 6442 in state: W
1817 in state: W , 6453 in state: W , 1819 in state: W
1820 in state: W , 6486 in state: W , 6492 in state: _
1827 in state: W , 1828 in state: W , 6493 in state: W
6630 in state: W , 1833 in state: W , 6634 in state: W
6635 in state: W , 1840 in state: W , 6664 in state: W
6665 in state: W , 1844 in state: W , 6666 in state: W
1846 in state: W , 6668 in state: W , 1848 in state: W
6669 in state: W , 6670 in state: W , 1893 in state: W
1852 in state: W , 1894 in state: W , 6671 in state: W
1897 in state: W , 6672 in state: W , 1908 in state: W
6673 in state: W , 6674 in state: W , 3887 in state: W
6675 in state: W , 1924 in state: W , 6676 in state: W
1931 in state: W , 6677 in state: W , 6678 in state: _
1991 in state: W , 6679 in state: W , 6682 in state: W
6842 in state: _ , 6684 in state: W , 6685 in state: W
4197 in state: W , 6941 in state: W , 6876 in state: W
6688 in state: W , 6689 in state: W , 3958 in state: W
6963 in state: W , 6691 in state: W , 3894 in state: W
6692 in state: W , 6886 in state: W ,

Any sugestions on how to get this to normal state again?

Thanks in advance.

[Polystigma]

What do you classify as normal.......

[Spaceh]

normal state is when i get the child names, usernames, path to process etc... and thats not appening now...

[Polystigma]

To obtain a full report with current status information you need to use the ExtendedStatus On directive.
In httpd.conf

[anand]

If you haven't hand edited the ExtendedStatus section of httpd, running a grep over httpd.conf will return the following:

grep 'ExtendedStatus' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf


# ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status
# information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus
#ExtendedStatus On
ExtendedStatus On 

Notice the last line without the # in front of it, which means the extended status is on.

To check what is taking high load on your server try running [b]top -d 1 -c[b] on shell as root. Press Ctrl+P to sort by cpu usage and you should be able to see what process is taking the top cpu.

[Spaceh]

Tnx you all,

i have changed the ExtendedStatus in httpd.conf, and now everything is back to normal.