On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 10:51, Václav Hůla wrote:
> On Saturday 12 of April 2003 21:09, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
> > Hi there.
> > I switched to Gentoo on two of my servers recently. Before that I used
> > Debian stable with a 2.4.18-Kernel.
> > Right now the machines are nearly useless. They should serve lots of
> > pages, but every ~24h everything freezes without any load on the
> > machines.. The load drops to 0.01 and nothing is delivered.
> > Only a restart of apache resets this timeframe again.
> 
> Have you tried to strace the apache? Somewhere in this post you wrote 
> something about one process eating lots of CPU, so maybe strace output of 
> this process may be helpful.

No, not yet.
I could try to run strace on apache, but the biggest problem is not the
CPU it uses.. The problem is that it just stops to work. Yesterday I got
a "MaxClients reached" error and MaxClients is 200.. After that it 
didn't "recover" so I had to restart it before any new connections were
possible. Since that happened 8h after I started the server again, I
doubt that I can strace this particular problem? Or do I miss something?

thx,
Ben