too long processes

Hello,

My server is running apache 1.3 and for severals weeks some processes don't
want to stop.
When i send a 'top' command i have more than 18 processes running and all
are httpd.
moreover this processes are running during long long time and my whole
server run really slow.

I run apache on redhat 8 with php4 and mysql.

Ideas and/or solutions would help me a lot

Thanks,

Matt

Matthieu <mlegoff DeleteThis @noos.fr> wrote:
 > When i send a 'top' command i have more than 18 processes running and all
 > are httpd.

Apache spawn a new child process every time is required, if the amount
of requests is steady, the child are kept alive and they don't die.

 > moreover this processes are running during long long time and my whole
 > server run really slow.

use uptime to check the load of the machine, check your logs for
the amount of requests processed. If you have a busy machine then
is normal that the system is slow. Besides, if all the pages are
making huge requests to the database you have a lot of time to wait
between the request and the response.

 > Ideas and/or solutions would help me a lot

Isn't clear if there is a problem that require a solution. Buy a
more powerfull machine could be an easy one. Put the database on
another machine could be another. But first, check if you really
have a problem.

Davide<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->