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Re: apache swapping the system to death

From Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.mandriva, comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: apache swapping the system to death
Date 2012-05-22 11:24 +0200
Organization [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Message-ID <u4obpgzhyh.fsf@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> (permalink)
References <m3Cur.26439$h64.11967@newsfe13.iad>

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unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:

> I am running a web server on a Mandriva 2010.2 system. Today the system
> suddenly became increadibly non-responsive. When I finally logged on as
> root, the swap file was up around 3GB, (no wonder response was horrible)
> and there were 160 instances of httpd running.

If you are running apache versions from 2010, this sounds suspiciously
like you have been a victim of

http://httpd.apache.org/security/CVE-2011-3192.txt

It would be best to upgrade to newer binaries then.

Regards,
Wolfram.

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apache swapping the system to death unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-05-22 01:35 +0000
  Re: apache swapping the system to death "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-05-22 06:57 +0200
  Re: apache swapping the system to death Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> - 2012-05-22 11:24 +0200
    Re: apache swapping the system to death unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2012-05-22 15:21 +0000

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