Folks,
Today at about 1:25pm (EST) I observed that web services from osgeo1
stopped responding. I logged in and found the machine was quiet, and
50 httpd processes seemed to be running though not doing anything.
I didn't wait very long to investigate (perhaps unfortunately). I did do
"/usr/sbin/apachectl status" which hung - presumably because it does a
fetch from the servers. /usr/sbin/apachectl restart worked fine.
I would add that the server "filled up" with 50+ requests from DanielM's
"server status check" script after restart. It is unclear whether they might
have played any role in the server lock up problem.
I sure wish I knew what was going on!
If we had evidence that the server was having all it's connections tied
up by some abuser I could put in the place the "max connections per ip#"
that I have put on download.osgeo.org to limit abuse. But currently I'm
not convinced that is the problem.
Note, this is apparently a different problem from what ever it is that causes
whole server lockups requiring remote power cycling.
Best regards,
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