High Load caused by user Cpanel executing php?!

[challii]

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND

15120 cpanel    25   0 29968  24M  1528 R    57.2  2.4   3:24   0 php

Seem to have this a lot today, I have to keep on manually killing them to keep the server load down. Possibly a phpMyadmin add?

running 9.9.8 c17.

Also we have about 60 zombie processes and 1 stopped process. Should I be worried about this?

 

[challii]

Grr its happening again! HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

 

[challii]

We have an absolute mass of

30359 root      39  19     0    0     0 Z N   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bwlimit <defunct>

This part of the problem perhaps?

Well i now know not to restart cpanel! had over 600 processes running! Had to restart server!

 

[netlook]

yes, this is a problem - lots of bwlimited procesess as zombie - what's going on

 

[challii]

thanx for that piece of help :p

 

[ehsanix]

have the exact problem on one of my servers, did you solve this any way?

 

[challii]

which problem?

php /cpanel i think is caused by phpmyadmin

zombie processeses is caused by cpanels coding.

Upgraded to new cpanel and that seems to have sorted things. (might break some others but hey!)

 

[ehsanix]

I had the zombie problems,
about 400 zombies ,
anyways, I just used the upcp and they are gone, I'll check it a few hours later,
Thanks for your reply challii

 

[GOT]

There is an unresolved bugzilla item on this.

Usually simply restarting cpanel will take care of them.