Large no of processes are running

[moleno]

From last few days I am getting high server load issue .
However I am using CloudLinux & "Prevent “nobody” from sending mail" is already enabled.

At the moment of server load I found a large no of nobody process

425378 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 1.0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
425395 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 1.0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
425655 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 1.0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
423411 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
425421 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
427017 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
427282 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
427284 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
427513 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428156 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428247 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428886 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428887 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428890 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428891 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428910 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428915 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428927 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL
428939 (Trace) (Kill) nobody 0 0.2 0.9 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL

Anyone please help .

 

[Jeff Shotnik]

Run `lynx localhost/whm-server-status` and you'll likely see a site receiving a lot of http requests. You could also run `netstat -plan|grep :80|awk {'print $5'}|cut -d: -f 1|sort|uniq -c|sort -nk 1` to see if a single IP has a large amount of requests open with httpd.