Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #8446: PHP/apache process is in infinite loop or appears to suck CPU

We cannot possibly track this down for you based on this. You will need to attach gdb to one of these looped processes and see where it is looping. -Rasmus On 28 Dec 2000 michael@audiogalaxy.com wrote: > From: michael@audiogalaxy.com > Operating system: RH 7.0 and RH 6.2 Any kernel 2.2.x > PHP version: 4.0.4 > PHP Bug Type: *General Issues > Bug description: PHP/apache process is in infinite loop or appears to suck CPU > > Below is a report from top for a SMP machine. This happens to all of our webservers every day > or so a few machine have one two httpd processes eating CPU. This same problem also happens on the > last two or more previous versions of php. > > A simple kill -9 pid removes it w/o killing the whole webserver. Below are the apache and > httpd configuration lines: > > ./configure --with-mysql --enable-track-vars --with-zlib --with-apache=$apachedir > --with-gd=$gddir --with-jpeg-dir=$gddir --with-config-file-path=/common/globalconfig/php > --enable-memory-limit > > ./configure --with-layout=production --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a > > An interesting aspect that is amount of memory each processing using 100% CPU is around 50megs. > We have the memory limit set in php as 30M. > > 1 processes: 85 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU0 states: 70.0% user, 4.0% system, 0.0% nice, 25.0% idle > CPU1 states: 53.0% user, 4.0% system, 0.0% nice, 41.0% idle > Mem: 1036464K av, 1006188K used, 30276K free, 149244K shrd, 32068K buff > Swap: 136512K av, 1124K used, 135388K free 677272K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 7763 nobody 9 0 53808 52M 2172 R 99.9 5.1 1527m httpd > 6825 nobody 0 0 4320 4320 2272 S 9.2 0.4 0:00 httpd > 6779 nobody 0 0 4912 4912 2276 S 6.4 0.4 0:00 httpd > 6830 root 4 0 1036 1036 812 R 6.4 0.0 0:00 top > > > Thanks for your help - this has been a real nagging problem for us that we keep thinking is > resolved in the next version. > > > -- > Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8446&edit=1 > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >