[Imc-tech] The website

Arun Bhalla bhalla at uiuc.edu
Thu Jan 27 18:52:57 CST 2005


Continuing drama, this time with Apache PID 21748.  It was running for
about 90 CPU minutes, started at 4:34pm.

Looks like it was stuck trying to send http://www.ucimc.org/components/help.js,
which is a very short file.  Maybe the connection was terminated, and
for some reason it didn't notice?


Arun

Scoreboard Key: 
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing, "." Open slot with no current process


Srv PID Acc M CPU  SS Req Conn Child Slot Client VHost Request  
0-0 26024 0/2/2699 _  1.46 5 1629 0.0 0.00 53.23  crawl-66-249-65-163.googlebot.c gallery.chambana.net GET /photos/soa2001/IMG_0751 HTTP/1.1 
1-0 20247 1/7/2068 W  1.95 10535 0 30.7 0.04 29.06  aca114b1.ipt.aol.com www.ucimc.org GET / HTTP/1.1 
2-0 3443 0/4/449 W  0.45 38404 0 0.0 0.03 4.33  69.214.224.147 www.ucimc.org GET / HTTP/1.1 
3-0 21490 0/15/2185 W  3.57 7918 0 0.0 0.08 54.07  141.142.65.186 www.ucimc.org GET / HTTP/1.1 
4-0 19453 0/6/1851 W  0.77 12391 0 0.0 0.10 26.75  69.212.99.103 www.ucimc.org GET / HTTP/1.1 
5-0 26000 1/5/2569 K  0.64 3 5397 22.7 0.07 43.36  adsl-69-224-226-59.dsl.irvnca.p www.anti-war.net GET /documents/YasMistry-Anti-war.jpg HTTP/1.1 
6-0 26001 0/3/2498 _  0.22 9 214 0.0 0.04 49.30  msnbot.msn.com gallery.chambana.net GET /photos/do_command.php?set_fullOnly=on&return=http%3A%2F%2F 
7-0 26025 0/2/2319 _  0.36 1 138 0.0 0.02 60.72  crawl-66-249-65-163.googlebot.c www.mediageek.org GET /mediageeklife/archives/001885.html HTTP/1.1 
8-0 26026 1/1/2005 K  0.00 9 4 0.0 0.00 72.02  swan.klm.nl www.anti-war.net GET /documents/YasminMistry-Peace.jpg HTTP/1.1 
9-0 14856 0/9/666 W  0.88 19222 0 0.0 0.01 11.42  132.198.2.41 www.ucimc.org GET /feature/display/24528/index.php HTTP/1.1 
10-0 20248 4/14/937 W  0.42 10534 0 13.1 0.02 11.27  user-254d.parkland.edu www.ucimc.org GET / HTTP/1.1 
11-0 25993 0/5/1058 _  0.02 38 23 0.0 0.36 91.05  66.93.72.98 www.ucimc.org HEAD /usermedia/audio/5/9.50_am.mp3 HTTP/1.0 
12-0 21748 1/6/489 W  1.15 7543 0 0.0 0.01 9.61  adsl-69-214-94-58.dsl.chmpil.am www.ucimc.org GET /components/help.js HTTP/1.1 
13-0 11287 4/4/46 W  0.41 24654 0 98.8 0.10 0.60  client-66-116-24-36.consolidate www.ucimc.org GET / HTTP/1.1 
14-0 26050 0/0/712 W  0.22 9 0 0.0 0.00 18.02  141.142.105.33 www.ucimc.org GET /server-status HTTP/1.1 
15-0 26051 0/0/551 _  1.20 6 0 0.0 0.00 15.72  lj2328.inktomisearch.com (unavailable) GET /newswire/index.php?function=comment&id=7601 HTTP/1.0 
16-0 - 0/0/465 .  0.00 37 379 0.0 0.00 26.97  msnbot.msn.com www.mediageek.org GET /sound/2003/mg101703.ogg HTTP/1.0 
17-0 - 0/0/299 .  0.37 66 0 0.0 0.00 3.65  msnbot.msn.com (unavailable) GET /photos/SOAWatch2004/cornpuppet2 HTTP/1.0 
18-0 - 0/0/171 .  0.00 66 0 0.0 0.00 1.75  84.9.74.225 (unavailable) GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1 
19-0 - 0/0/101 .  0.00 103 0 0.0 0.00 13.44  ti411110a080-0296.bb.online.no (unavailable) GET /images/shows/lobsterblue.jpg HTTP/1.1 
20-0 - 0/0/44 .  0.00 302 14 0.0 0.00 0.33  70-58-132-182.bois.qwest.net zach.chambana.net GET /pics/fancy-heyiya-if.gif HTTP/1.1 
21-0 - 0/0/40 .  0.00 302 12 0.0 0.00 0.29  70-58-132-182.bois.qwest.net zach.chambana.net GET /pics/yin_yang.gif HTTP/1.1 
22-0 - 0/0/23 .  0.00 302 15 0.0 0.00 0.20  70-58-132-182.bois.qwest.net zach.chambana.net GET /pics/smaller_mu.gif HTTP/1.1 
23-0 - 0/0/22 .  0.02 286 55 0.0 0.00 0.19  adsl-69-214-228-82.dsl.chmpil.a www.weft.org GET /station/pr/ HTTP/1.1 
24-0 - 0/0/4 .  0.00 283 1638 0.0 0.00 0.06  adsl-69-214-228-82.dsl.chmpil.a www.weft.org GET /images/weftfest.jpg HTTP/1.1 
25-0 - 0/0/4 .  0.00 290 1 0.0 0.00 0.06  ti411110a080-0296.bb.online.no www.weft.org GET /images/dot.gif HTTP/1.1 
26-0 - 0/0/3 .  0.00 289 2 0.0 0.00 0.03  ti411110a080-0296.bb.online.no www.weft.org GET /images/shows/lobsterred.jpg HTTP/1.1 
27-0 - 0/0/2 .  0.28 287 3878 0.0 0.00 0.05  lj1356.inktomisearch.com www.ucimc.org GET /newswire/index.php?function=comment&id=12519 HTTP/1.0 



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PID OS process ID  
Acc Number of accesses this connection / this child / this slot  
M Mode of operation  
CPU CPU usage, number of seconds  
SS Seconds since beginning of most recent request  
Req Milliseconds required to process most recent request  
Conn Kilobytes transferred this connection  
Child Megabytes transferred this child  
Slot Total megabytes transferred this slot  



Arun Bhalla writes:
> 4 or so Apache processes went crazy tonight, sometime after I rebooted
> imsahp at 7:10pm.  We noticed the runaway processes around 1am.  Zach
> added process ID (PID) logging to the "full" Apache log, so that may
> help with diagnosis.  We suspect Dada or PHP or something related to
> either, but we don't have any evidence yet.  I suspected my security
> patching on 10/25/04 to be responsible for the runaway processes, but
> that doesn't seem likely, given the code that was changed.  I tried out
> the "patched files" that are available on the dadaimc.org site, but
> that breaks our install of Dada when I drop those patched files in place.
> Somehow we have newer revisions of those files, so those "patched files"
> from dadaimc.org must have been from some previous release of Dada.
> 
> While looking over these patches, I noticed that our files called the
> ImageCreate() function, when it looked like it should have called
> ImageCreateTrueColor().  I changed a couple references, one in
> /var/www/ucimc/imc_classes/imc_FunctionLibrary.imc, the other in
> imc_Media.imc.  Could someone with editorial powers test out the
> change by adding a post to the newswire with some color images,
> perhaps a 24-bit (TrueColor) JPEG?  My hope is that the lines I
> changed will fix the faded image problem.  It would surely make Darrin
> happy.  If it doesn't work, let me know, or someone could change the
> ImageCreateTrueColor() function calls back to ImageCreate.  Or simply
> roll back using the backup in /var/www/ucimc-20050125.tar.gz.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> Arun
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