Hello there, I run an OpenBSD web server (still running 3.9), and I encounter an unusual intermittent problem. It runs Apache with php, and for the most part it runs great with a load average of around 3-5 processes.
Occasionally, however (every few days, lately), it freaks out and it seems to try running everything at one time. I leave "top" running so that I can see what's going on before it starts to lock (it's not ACTUALLY locked, it's just running ridiculously slowly), and just before it toasted most recently, this was the status: load averages: 168.48, 108.33, 54.01 257 processes: 179 running, 76 idle, 1 zombie, 1 on processor Additionally the CPU States for each processor is at like 65% system usage (this clearly sounds to me like the OS is just trying to juggle the ridiculous number of running processes). Generally speaking though, the CPU Stats tends to hover around "20% system" which seems unusually high to me. So my question is rather general, I guess. What should I be looking for that would prevent this from freaking out like this? I've tinkered with the login.conf and the apache configurations, and I'm curious if there are other things I should consider looking at. Jesse -- http://www.dkpsystem.com
