Server load increases by lot of httpd request with same PID
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Published on 2014-08-20T16:13:15Z
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I can see that my server load increases to more than 200-300 range. Before 1 week the maximum load was around 20-25. In top and ps -ef i can see a lot of httpd threads and the PPID of most of the httpd request are of the same PID. When i verified this the parent process ID is of root. Please let me know how i can reduce the server load. I have searched a lot for this but not able to find out a proper solution for this. Please let me know.
Please see below a part of the top output.
apache 29698 2062 1 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29700 2062 3 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29701 2062 10 16:54 ? 00:00:02 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29702 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29703 2062 1 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29705 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29706 2062 3 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29707 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29708 2062 1 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29709 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29710 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29711 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 29712 2062 0 16:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
Server version: Apache/2.2.3
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