Eike Frost wrote:
Hello,

On Friday 04 August 2006 18:02, Marc Perkel wrote:
  
I'm having connection problems. Running server status 90% of the
connections look like this:
*50-0* 	17499 	0/8/8 	*R* 	0.00 	0 	1 	0.0 	0.00 	0.00 	? 	? 	..reading..
What does this mean?
    

This means that these processes are reading requests being sent to them. If 
most of your processes are in reading state, you either have a massive 
network problem, or somebody is trying to DoS you by opening connections and 
very slowly sending requests that never actually do get finished, thereby 
tying up the process/thread. Have a look at 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#timeout to see how you can 
reduce the time Apache will wait in Reading state.

--Eike
  

Thanks - that solved it. Not sure what happened but had a very high load problem.

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