[BNM] Apache / Apache 2 / FastCGI / Lighttpd advice

[Tom Hume]

On 4 Dec 2006, at 15:02, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:

>> Wow. That sounds seriously screwy to me; I've seen Apache/FCGI
>> processes fall over and dump core thanks to library mismatches etc,
>> but bringing down the whole box? I'd look at hardware and check the
>> memory in the machine as a first step. There's no way user-level
>> processes should be doing that sort of thing.
> I know, but as our load has increased, so has the frequency of the
> crashes, which after much disabling of almost every cronjob and
> process on the box has lead me to believe that it's Apache that's at
> fault.

Urk. That does sound suspicious. Has the number of Apache of FCGI  
processes also ramped up over time in proportion to load - or did you  
have a big pool of them kicking around since day 1?

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