general/1135: The httpd servers are eating up the CPU time and pushing the load average to 90.00

[Michael Strouse <st...@geektech.com>]

>Number:         1135
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       The httpd servers are eating up the CPU time and pushing the load average to 90.00
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache (Apache HTTP Project)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 14 18:00:02 1997
>Originator:     strouse@geektech.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        Apache/1.3a1.
>Environment:
here is the output from uname -a : Linux webworx 2.0.28 #7 Mon Apr 21 16:01:53 CDT 1997 i58
>Description:
The problem is my server handled about 250,000 hits a day untill I upgraded to 1.3a1 from 1.2b2.
I am using the same httpd.conf as before but now I have a load average of 10.00 - 90.00
I used to have a load average of 1.50 - 5.00. When I run the command top to see what is eating 
all the CPU time I see many of the httpd servers eating 50% - 90% of the CPU resources.

>How-To-Repeat:
Not really. Unless you want access to my machine to see it.
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
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