My modperl Apache keeps freezing up every few days. When it freezes up, here's what "ps" looks like:
$ ps ux --width=9999 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND shoujoai 29179 0.0 0.2 8036 5928 ? Ss May03 0:00 /usr/local/perlhttpd/bin/httpd -f /home/shoujoai/httpd/httpd.conf shoujoai 30337 0.0 0.9 21344 18728 ? S May03 0:02 /usr/local/perlhttpd/bin/httpd -f /home/shoujoai/httpd/httpd.conf shoujoai 14289 0.0 1.0 23708 21156 ? S May03 0:36 /usr/local/perlhttpd/bin/httpd -f /home/shoujoai/httpd/httpd.conf shoujoai 14366 0.0 0.9 22168 19584 ? S May03 0:25 /usr/local/perlhttpd/bin/httpd -f /home/shoujoai/httpd/httpd.conf shoujoai 17662 0.0 0.9 21656 19132 ? S May03 0:19 /usr/local/perlhttpd/bin/httpd -f /home/shoujoai/httpd/httpd.conf shoujoai 26427 0.0 0.9 21364 18836 ? S May03 0:06 /usr/local/perlhttpd/bin/httpd -f /home/shoujoai/httpd/httpd.conf When I try to telnet to it, it goes like this: $ telnet localhost 8002 Trying 127.0.0.1... then it hangs for a few minutes before this: Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. Then if I try to do an HTTP request: GET /server-status HTTP/1.1 Host: www.shoujoai.com it'll hang for another few minutes and then it just does: Connection closed by foreign host. Any ideas what's going on? The access_log showed normal traffic patterns up until the time it froze then it just stops: 206.57.89.207 - - [03/May/2006:23:44:04 -0500] "GET /forum/board_show.pl?bid=12 HTTP/1.0" 200 15098 "http://www.shoujoai.com/forum/forum_show.pl"; "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)" 68.107.121.19 - - [03/May/2006:23:44:04 -0500] "GET /forum/board_show.pl?bid=7;pg=2 HTTP/1.0" 200 15752 "http://www.shoujoai.com/forum/board_show.pl?bid=7"; "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7" 70.244.35.23 - - [03/May/2006:23:44:05 -0500] "GET /forum/forum_search.pl HTTP/1.0" 200 6525 "http://www.shoujoai.com/forum/board_show.pl?bid=12"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; YPC 3.0.3; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" If I kill and restart the Apache then it's fine but it'll freeze up in a few days again. I'm perplexed.
