Bug#215836: apache uses lot's of CPU and Memory

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>]

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
> [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 18038)]
> 0x40205ce4 in _IO_file_underflow () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb)

It's always in the above function, which is part of the package 'libc6'

The top line of the file /usr/share/doc/libc/changelog.Debian.gz is:
glibc (2.3.2-8) unstable; urgency=low



Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Daniel Pocock wrote:
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> > I thought it had gone away, but it is still happening.  Sometimes I am
> > getting 24 hours without the problem, but then it comes back with a
> > vengeance.  It's quite annoying, because processes like tomcat just stop
> > when apache uses up all the memory.  Then I have to restart the
> > processes manually.
> >
> > I'm going to try upgrading (apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade) and
> > see if the problem goes away.
> >    
>
> if you try using this method please take notes of which packages are
> actually installed and which gets updated to which version otherwise we
> will loose track of the envinronment.
>
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> > The function where it is getting stuck does appear to be within one of
> > the libraries, and not apache itself.  Does this mean I should file a
> > bug report against that library as well?
> >    
>
> If you can spot the library we can reassign this bug or retitle it to
> match the location of the problem.
>
> Thanks
> Fabio
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