Apache crashes a few seconds after the start.
- by Nacho
Hi, i've got a problem with apache. When i try to start it (/etc/init.d/apache2 start) it dies after a few seconds. It shows up on "ps aux" consuming a lot of memory and then dies. I don't know what could be causing apache to consume this amount of memory:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 13379 1.0 0.3 14376 3908 ? Ss 22:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 13383 0.0 0.4 197316 4196 ? Sl 22:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 13390 0.0 0.3 172728 4172 ? Sl 22:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 13396 0.0 0.3 156336 4160 ? Sl 22:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 13400 0.0 0.3 148140 4156 ? Sl 22:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 13403 0.0 0.3 131748 4148 ? Sl 22:31 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
Here is a htop screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/N4Chh.png
It happened suddenly, no change had been made to server config, so i don't know whats causing it. The error log of my virtual servers shows this:
[Sun Jan 30 22:19:50 2011] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_wsgi (pid=9685): Couldn't create worker thread 11 in daemon process 'fb.ebookmetafinder.com'.
[Sun Jan 30 22:19:55 2011] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_wsgi (pid=9685): Couldn't create worker thread 19 in daemon process 'fb.ebookmetafinder.com'.
[Sun Jan 30 22:29:40 2011] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_wsgi (pid=12009): Couldn't create worker thread 18 in daemon process 'fb.ebookmetafinder.com'.
[Sun Jan 30 22:31:06 2011] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_wsgi (pid=13396): Couldn't create worker thread 15 in daemon process 'fb.ebookmetafinder.com'.
[Sun Jan 30 22:35:02 2011] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_wsgi (pid=14009): Couldn't create worker thread 16 in daemon process 'fb.ebookmetafinder.com'.
[Sun Jan 30 22:35:07 2011] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: mod_wsgi (pid=14009): Couldn't create worker thread 17 in daemon process 'fb.ebookmetafinder.com'.
I'm on a ubuntu server vps and i use mod_wsgi with django.
Thanks.