Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-02-01 Thread Dave Barton
Hi, To answer the questions from the other email first; Which version of WP? Did you make -- recently -- any changes? Upgrade, install new plugins? Did you traffic spontaneously increase? It's an old version (2.7) but I'm not sure how much of an option an upgrade is. I'll have to raise it with

Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-02-01 Thread Igor Galić
- Dave Barton dave.bar...@comodo.com wrote: Hi, To answer the questions from the other email first; Which version of WP? Did you make -- recently -- any changes? Upgrade, install new plugins? Did you traffic spontaneously increase? It's an old version (2.7) but I'm not sure how

Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-02-01 Thread Dave Barton
Hi, Sorry, half-asleep. Dave Barton Senior Systems Administrator Comodo CA Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1274 730505 Fax: +44 (0) 1274 730909 On 01/02/11 14:29, Igor Galić wrote: - Dave Barton dave.bar...@comodo.com wrote: Hi, To answer the questions from the other email first; Which version

Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-02-01 Thread Igor Galić
- Dave Barton dave.bar...@comodo.com wrote: Hi, Sorry, half-asleep. Dave Barton Senior Systems Administrator Comodo CA Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1274 730505 Fax: +44 (0) 1274 730909 On 01/02/11 14:29, Igor Galić wrote: - Dave Barton dave.bar...@comodo.com wrote: Hi, To

[users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-01-31 Thread Dave Barton
Hi, We've recently had a pretty large increase in the usage of one of our Wordpress-powered sites. I'm seeing some very odd behaviour and I'm at a loss as to how to investigate it further. Some of the apache processes are spawning children with broken CPU usage and time stats (as shown by ps

Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-01-31 Thread Dave Barton
Should really have included this; # apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) Server built: Jan 29 2010 12:34:06 # apache2ctl modules [Mon Jan 31 17:29:24 2011] [warn] module status_module is already loaded, skipping Loaded Modules: core_module (static) mpm_worker_module (static)

Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-01-31 Thread Igor Galić
- Dave Barton dave.bar...@comodo.com wrote: Hi, We've recently had a pretty large increase in the usage of one of our Wordpress-powered sites. I'm seeing some very odd behaviour and I'm at Which version of WP? Did you make -- recently -- any changes? Upgrade, install new plugins? Did

Re: [users@httpd] Apache spawning broken sub-processes under load

2011-01-31 Thread Igor Galić
- Dave Barton dave.bar...@comodo.com wrote: Should really have included this; # apache2 -v Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) Server built: Jan 29 2010 12:34:06 # apache2ctl modules [Mon Jan 31 17:29:24 2011] [warn] module status_module is already loaded, skipping Loaded