weird httpd processes

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:02:06PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote:
> 
> hi all...
> 
> for the last 4 - 5 days i noticed something weird on one of the freebsd
> boxes here. one httpd process -or sometimes 2 or 3 - take up all the cpu.
> and it looks like this:
> 
> # top
> CPU states: 33.1% user,  0.0% nice, 66.5% system,  0.4% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 476M Active, 295M Inact, 162M Wired, 61M Cache, 112M Buf, 7556K Free
> Swap: 2032M Total, 4K Used, 2032M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME      PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> 85655 nobody         64   0 20632K 14880K RUN    126:03 97.07% 97.07% httpd
> 85654 nobody          2   0 19532K 13616K sbwait   0:16  0.24%  0.24% httpd
>  6081 root           28   0  2016K  1196K RUN      0:00  0.22%  0.10% top

Does your httpd installation serve up any scripted content i.e. using
perl, PHP, etc.  I have seen apache spin out of control due to poorly,
or incorrectly written scripts.

Nathan
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