Nobody High CPU HTTPD
Hi All,
Currently we are experiencing an issue of CPU being consumed by the httpd process.
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I have read multiple posts about this an how to check process threads etc but so far I haven't been able to find a solution. The server iteslf has EA4, Configserver Firewall/Scanner/Mailscanner FE and is running cloudlinix 7.5. LVE Manager shows that no users are over limits and looks normal. I'm assuming that the problem is with Apache not closing threads properly. (guess?)
When I do an Strace I get
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The munin process graph looks like: (this is me manually killing processes just to have them start up again soon after and continue to consume resources.
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The EasyApache 4 packages are ....
I'm not really sure where to go to from here. Its a new server with only a few accounts on there. At first I thought that it may be that Munin or WHM were falsely reporting the usage due to a bug or some such but then sites were reporting Resource errors. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm not really sure where to go to from here. Its a new server with only a few accounts on there. At first I thought that it may be that Munin or WHM were falsely reporting the usage due to a bug or some such but then sites were reporting Resource errors. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello @mythosis, The following thread is a good place to start when troubleshooting high loads: Let me know if this helps. Thank you. 0 -
Update: 12 hours later and can confirm server is stable. Thanks. (different server same fix) 5367753681 0 -
This docs page may help Apache Module: cPanel - EasyApache 4 - cPanel Documentation 0 -
Solution: In our case it was a case of the Apache module mod_cpanel taking up the CPU resources. We have been instructed to recompile Apache without this mod and monitor performance. So far so good.
Hello, There's also an internal case open to track reports of mod_cpanel leading to excessive CPU usage. You can follow the progress of the internal case on the following thread: Thank you.0
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