It seems that our server problems were caused by the /var partition that filled up.
The server was completely refusing to respond - even on the console. When Keith restarted it, I logged in via ssh but the apache process started multiplying like rabbits on viagra, and in less than 2 minutes there were more than 50 apache processes eating the CPU. Anyway I slaughtered the apaches, resized the partition to 5G (I love LVM) and restarted mysql and apache. So far it seems to be behaving like rabbits on contraceptives - diligently at it, but a much more sensible 12 processes. Thanks Keith and Eric for resuscitating the server. Ramon Casha
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