Big Problem, Load Avg Very High

[Steven Adams]

This is a live server. I cant format it or take it down for over 5-6hours...

In theory you should be able to update to 5.3 from 5.2.1 correct>?

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-----Original Message-----
From: DanGer [mailto:danger at wilbury.sk] 
Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2004 9:25 PM
To: questions at freebsd.org; Steven Adams
Subject: Re: Big Problem, Load Avg Very High

Saturday, November 6, 2004, 6:41:50 AM, you wrote:

> Hi,

  hello

> I run FreeBSD 5.2.1 with the following hardware

  you can upgrade to 5.3, it's now -release

> I am really confussed what else I can do to find out what is causing this
> problem as the server completely locks up when it goes to 50+ load.

> It seems that its copying a lot of information to the swap drive and is
> running out of ram, which I don't know why it seems apache is taking up
all
> of the ram for some weird reason?

  don't you use apache 2.x ? if so, there is a new DDoS "feature" :)

  info:

  http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6A0010KBPE.html

> Here is my demsg, I hope you guys can help!


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