----- "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 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 our developers. > > > > I don't see my questions actually answered :-/ > > Did anything change? > > > > Or did you just suddenly start monitoring the system and realized > > you've got a > Nothing changed, but we did see a 12-14x increase in traffic to the
DUH. Well that *is* something. What do your MaxRequestsPerChild and other MPM values look like? > site. Currently I'm not sure if this was caused by a malicious DDOS > or > some kind of micro-Slashdotting. It stopped after about 4 hours and > the crazy subprocess spawning stopped as well. What's your firewall guys say about that? Does it look like legit traffic? Can you ban it on the network? etc.. > > > >>>> Given the line-breaks it's *really* hard to read what you mean > :-/ > >> > >> Sorry :( > > > > I would love to present to you the `ps -o` option. > > Along with -u<apacheuser> they are powerful tools. > I shall treasure them always. > > > > > >>>> Are you running this in a Zone/Container/Jail/Vz/blah > >> > >> The WordPress installation is running as an Apache vhost on a Xen > >> virtual machine. The VM is only used for Apache and doesn't run > >> anything > >> else (except stuff like ntpd and snmpd of course). > > > > As with any virtualization, I'd run ntpd on the Xen host only. > Something else to look into, thanks :) > > > >> Other answers are in-line below. Thanks for trying to help me out! > :) > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> On 31/01/11 18:28, Igor Galić wrote: > >>> > >>> ----- "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 Modules: > >>>> core_module (static) > >>>> mpm_worker_module (static) > >>>> http_module (static) > >>>> so_module (static) > >>>> alias_module (shared) > >>>> auth_basic_module (shared) > >>>> authn_alias_module (shared) > >>>> authn_anon_module (shared) > >>>> authn_default_module (shared) > >>>> authn_file_module (shared) > >>>> authz_groupfile_module (shared) > >>> > >>> Do you really need all these modules? > >>> Take a look at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/ > >>> To see which you can safely remove. > >> > >> Looking into that now, thanks for the tip. > > > Likewise you should probably look into what PHP extensions > you're loading and which you're actually using. > It seems fairly sane, but I can't guarantee that we're using > everything > we have loaded. > > > > > > >>> [snip] > >>>> info_module (shared) > >>>> > >>>> # php -v > >>>> PHP 5.2.12-pl0-gentoo (cli) (built: Jan 26 2010 16:48:31) > >>>> Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group > >>>> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies > >>> > >>> Are you running PHP with APC or a different accelerator? If not, > >>> you should a) consider it, and b) be aware that WP has some > issues > >>> with these.. > >> > >> We're not running any accelerator with PHP. The traffic levels for > >> this > >> site are generally so low that it's not an issue and they can be > more > >> trouble than they are worth. > > > > My experience tends to be vice verse. I guess everyone is entitled > to > > their own opinion, given their experiences ;) > > > >>>> # uname -a > >>>> Linux mcpweb2 2.6.31-xen-r10 #1 SMP Sat Nov 27 14:17:17 UTC 2010 > > > > duh. Should've seen it's Xen. > > > > Anyway. It > >>>> x86_64 > >>>> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5530 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > >>>> > >>>> If anything else is needed, please let me know. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers > >>>> > >>>> Dave Barton > >>>> Senior Systems Administrator > >>>> Comodo CA Ltd > >>> > >>> i > > > > i > > -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
