Question

I have a Rails + Apache2 + Postgres + Passenger application running in production mode in OSX Snow Leopard. The application serves as a data warehouse for another application in the cloud so I’m constantly getting API calls to my OSX production build.

After a recent reboot, I’m finding a ton of httpd processes stacking up and eventually requiring an apache reboot. I haven’t changed any settings, everything was running fine before. Any ideas on the best way to troubleshoot this?

$ ps -ef|grep httpd
    0  6203     1   0   0:00.20 ??         0:00.47 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6222  6203   0   0:00.05 ??         0:00.11 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6224  6203   0   0:00.31 ??         0:00.50 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6233  6203   0   0:00.05 ??         0:00.10 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6234  6203   0   0:00.43 ??         0:00.64 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6243  6203   0   0:00.02 ??         0:00.03 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6319  6203   0   0:00.08 ??         0:00.16 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6334  6203   0   0:00.02 ??         0:00.05 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6469  6203   0   0:00.04 ??         0:00.08 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6487  6203   0   0:00.36 ??         0:00.48 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6593  6203   0   0:00.36 ??         0:00.48 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6709  6203   0   0:00.04 ??         0:00.08 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6718  6203   0   0:00.04 ??         0:00.10 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6834  6203   0   0:00.01 ??         0:00.03 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6852  6203   0   0:00.00 ??         0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND
   70  6853  6203   0   0:00.01 ??         0:00.02 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND

Answer 1

have you installed another apache web server or is it the one already installed?