Too many httpd process

[DonA]

Hello Guys

I checked process list, I found too many of httpd process .... when I run : "ps -ef | grep http | wc -l" I got : 310

that happened suddenly, few days ago number of httpd procces didnt raise 30

and I'm 90% sure there's no ddos attack, can anyone help me please ?

BTW, I run on server I7, 24Gb RAM .. my site traffic is 30k visitors daily


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[Lock Down]

you can run this command to show what ip is connected and how many times.

netstat -anp |grep 'tcp\|udp' | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Then you can use your firewall or iptables to limit the number of connections from each ip.

 

[1000Mbps.com]

If these apache processes are actually in use consider switching to either nginx or lighttpd in the near future. This will scale better as they are not based on a threaded model like apache, so you won't run in to memory consumption issues caused by apache threads when your site grows.

 

[-sky-]

provided your httpd.conf and we can see the configuration