> The site is relatively busy - up to 30000 hits a day, and has been
> running fine for over a year. However in the last two weeks I
> have found that I am ending up with a large number of httpd
> processes that don't die.
>
[snip]
> Problem is, that Apache seems to ignore these processes and start new ones
> without killing them - so I end up with *hundreds* of http processes with
> the machine swapping like crazy.
http://perl.apache.org/guide/debug.html#Hanging_Processes_Detection_and
See also Apache::Watchdog::RunAway
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