[cobalt-developers] Strange Apache problem

[Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a strange apache problem.

I noticed that port 80 was not serving up web pages at the normal speed.

Port 81 was fine (admin port).

It took maybe 90 seconds to get a page. Lots of people complained.
It affected all virtual sites. It wasn't MySQL either. I restarted apache and
it was ok for 1 minute
and then went back to being slow.

I loaded the few packages (patches) that I had not
loaded yet and today its fine (so far). The CPU was more than 50% idle, so
that wasn't it.

Could Apache not have created enough spare servers? How can I check that
condition?

Has anyone seen this on their systems besides me?

Herb

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