hi Tim & all,> > I am having a real weird problem with a newly installed Dell PowerEdge > > 2650 which acts as a web (Apache) and mail server(Procmail). The load just > > 'spikes' sometimes (to 40.00 or so), but immediately starts to go down. > > > Could be Apache restarting a bunch of children all at once. > Could be a burst of CGI requests. I have seen sometimes the number of running processes jumping from 1-2 to 200 or so, which are the apache kids, but that doesn't produce a system load at all. > Try looking at your 'top' snapshots just before and after > the spike. Look to see if there are any processes > whose PIDs seem to have changed. That might indicate > that some processes are getting restarted. I will try to do that indeed, even though I will have to compare the pids of all apache children processes... > > Also, look in your apache and mail server log files > to see if you're getting a burst of some sort of > errors around that time. I have, and found nothing there at all (looked into the system logs as well, same outcome). Thanks for your answer, bogdan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
