[Sussex] Slow runnings...

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Jon Fautley wrote:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've recently installed IceCast onto my server at home and it now seems
>>to be running like a very heavy object with no legs.
>>
>>I'm not too sure where to go from here or how to investigate memory
>>leakage, but I've tried running
>>
>>#top
>>
>>and it told me that MySQL was hogging the most CPU, so then I did
>>
>># ps ax
>>
>>and I seem to be running about 100 occurrances of Apache2.  I've altered
>>my apache config so it doesn't spawn as many servers (reduced it from
>>150 to 50) and then rebooted the entire box.
> 
> 
> Hmm, 150 children started in Apache?!
> 
> This sounds like either you've got something broken running (any custom
> PHP scripts that could be running away with the system?) 

Not that I can think of...

> or you've got hardware issues, 

I've not changed any hardware in nearly a year...

> or you've been 0wn3d. Is the system connected to the
> internet? Have you tried running chkrootkit?
> (google.com/search?q=chkrootkit) - DO NOT INSTALL IT FROM YOUR DISTRO'S
> PACKAGING SYSTEM!

Running it now as we speak...

> 
> Have you considered buying a new machine? ;)

If only I had the money. I'm still unemployed.... got through to the 
second round of interviews for one company though, hopefully by next 
week I'll have a job...

Matt

> Regards,
> 
> Jon