Weird Apache error - Apache hangs & needs restarting regularly

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I've been recently receiving this weird error where Apache just becomes unresponsive and completely stops until it is manually restarted.

It gets to a point where I can not longer retrieve apache status from cPanel, and all websites running apache just hang on "connecting" until it times out.

Has anyone else received this problem?

This is a screenshot of my top when this weird problem occurs, usually the top has all httpd and php processes. weird Thanks for your help

Moe

Posted 2012-06-04T15:47:12.280

Reputation: 389

are you running/hosting any memory intensive scripts? – Reuben L. – 2012-06-12T05:37:20.000

Answers

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I found the problem. It was related to mod_fcgid's bug of locking processes and then slowly killing apache completely.

Listed here is how I fixed it

Moe

Posted 2012-06-04T15:47:12.280

Reputation: 389