Re: [cobalt-users] httpd taking up most resources ?

["roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
> 
> This is regarding the Raq4,  off late this raq's load is moving 
> above 4, and if at that time.. any cronjob like logrotate or 
> webalizer starts.. it is reaching  6+  load.
> 
> I dont know why  but earlier  most of the httpd process used to be 
> much below 1% or 2% of CPU  usage.  But now.. most of the httpd 
> processess are 3% and above. And when any httpd process calls 
> cgi.. then that process goes upto even 30% to 50 % of cpu usage.
> 
> But I am wondering.. as to why the normal httpd processess are 
> taking up more  than 2% of cpu usage.
> 
> Kindly guide me..:
> 
> *) is it related to size of logs  in  
> /home/sites/sitename/logs/web.log ?
> 
> Recently we have added  "ads" to the html pages in 10+ sites.  
> Does this heavy load of  httpd in any way related to those ads..
> 
> But the ads are comming from different site..
> 
> help..
> 
> thanks
> mahesh.
> 
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Log sizes won't use more CPU.
On Apache 1.3.x, every time theres a new http request it starts up a new copy 
of httpd for that request then closes it.