Sometimes Apache request handler processes can become blocked waiting on things like NFS. This reaper process is designed to be run either manually or via cron to clean things up.
./long-httpd-killer -t 60 -f -s
This command will hit the Apache server status running at 127.0.0.1. Look for request handlers that have been running for longer than 60 seconds, send them a kill -9 and report the reaping via syslog.
Syslog log messages will be generated like the following:
kill -9 - PID: 27744 Srv: 13-2 Acc: 0/22/52325 M: W CPU: 7.92 Ss: 0: Req: 0
Conn: 0.0 Child: 0.08 Slot: 568.37 Client: 10.13.1.15 VHost:
foo.bar.baz POST /slow.php CWD: /var/www
To run this via cron, I would suggess adding an entry like the following to instruct cron to run it every minute:
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/long-httpd-killer -t 60 -f -s
Please send feedback or patches through github:
https://github.com/zsprackett/long-httpd-killer
Thanks! S. Zachariah Sprackett [email protected]