I had the same happen to me. What I did was install monit which watches
over things and restarts Apache when things get too bloated or if Apache
stops responding.
I also have the following entry in my crontab which kills particularly
busy Apache processes:
*/10 * * * * ps auxw|grep apache2| awk '$10 !~ /0:00/ {print
$2":"$10}'|awk -F ':' '$2 !~ 0 {print $1}'|xargs kill -9 2> /dev/null
I blogged about it a while back:
http://ocaoimh.ie/2006/10/01/killing-off-php/
Donncha
Niall O Broin wrote:
> I have a server which serves a number of domains. One of the domains can
> sometimes get very busy (to the extent of leading to a server load of
> 40+) so it was transferred to an IP of its own, with its own copy of
> apache running limited to a certain number of processes.
>> The problem is that sometimes, this apache hangs. Its processes are
> still there, but they won't serve any pages. Sending a HUP to the lead
> process doesn't help, and the only solution to the problem is to stop
> and restart the server.
>
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