RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ4i. Memory usage growing out of control

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My memory usage % seems to grow steadily over a few days, and 
> then reaches a point where the RaQ stops responding to http 
> or ssh, even though the mail server still seems to be 
> working.  I rebooted a couple of days ago and it started off 
> at 29% (a reboot used to put me at less than 10%).  My memory 
> usage is now at 69%
> 
> Bwlow is a copy of my Top, sorted into memory usage.  There 
> seem to be a lot of http processes using 1.7% of memory.  Not 
> knowing much about analyzing a Top, does anything here look 
> out of the ordinary?
> 
>

Have you tried running:

tail -f /var/log/httpd/access | grep cgi-bin
Or, grep some other specific domain that runs a lot of scripts.
Maybe you'll spot some spider like webclipping.com hitting a script
rather hard.
Check your robots.txt files to be sure you exclude script directories.
You might take a look at:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/26/how_to_block_spambots_ban_sp
ybots_and_tell_unwanted_robots_to_go_to_hell
-- 
C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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