quick question for server gurus
 

i've got a dedicated box that keeps failing periodically.

it's needed a manual apache restart 3 or 4 times in the last 6 weeks.

i catch it each time with monitoring software (sure wish my host would catch it before i do).

it has good amount of memory and is running ok otherwise. this box has key data and must not go down, it is serving mostly video files and some tgp galleries, it is not running scripts other than javascript and anti hotlinking.

is this an apache tuning issue? any ideas?

thanks.

whats the load number on that badboy?

check how many servers are spawned in the first place

ps ax | grep -c httpd

then check your httpd.conf see your settings.

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-JM

right now very low, just required a restart a few minutes ago:


Server Version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.10 FrontPage/5.0.2.2623
Server Built: Jan 24 2003 20:00:16

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Current Time: Saturday, 24-Dec-2005 13:11:12 EST
Restart Time: Saturday, 24-Dec-2005 12:50:16 EST
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 20 minutes 56 seconds
Total accesses: 5755 - Total Traffic: 266.3 MB
CPU Usage: u5.74219 s6.88281 cu0 cs0 - 1.01% CPU load
4.58 requests/sec - 217.1 kB/second - 47.4 kB/request
26 requests currently being processed, 89 idle servers

Jesus, old software anyone? :)

well, without seeing detailed logs, its really hard to diagnose.... I'll be around most of the weekend... hit me up at micknobody on aim and I can help you with it.

Frontpage? uh...