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

[Tom Hume]

Run a cron job to dump some system stats every minute into a file, to  
help with a post-mortem: things like server load, free disk/memory,  
number of processes, etc. Do this every minute. Done this before on  
live servers and it's been really handy when trying to diagnose  
problems after-the-fact.

If you can't get apache to dump stats itself you could try grepping  
the output of ps for number of httpd processes, their size, etc.

On 4 Dec 2006, at 15:54, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:

> On 12/4/06, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4 Dec 2006, at 15:02, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Got a core file?
>>
>> Until then, you're waving a rubber chicken.
>
> Heh. If only. Currently it's an invisible rubber chicken.
>
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