httpd not responding.

[planepix]

Hi there,

I'm dealing with a kind a large prob. HTTPD doesn't respond at all on any request anymore.

Directadmin is still working perfect, and shows an awfull lot of proccess id's. The server load shoots trough 100.

I've done all my possible solutions (restarting httpd, stopping it, wait a while, and restart again.) but nothing really helps.

SSH is still working fine, and 'top' is telling me that there are a lot of httpd procceses running, but none of them with a real high cpu load. Even when I shut httpd down, wait a while and reboot, within three seconds, all these proccesses are running again, and al site's are down.

Running fc3 & directadmin 1.26.1

Someone who got a solution?

-edit-
When i look to the apache logs the show this:

[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26162 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26164 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26165 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26166 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26167 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26168 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26169 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26170 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26171 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26172 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:01 2006] [error] could not make child process 26173 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26184 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26185 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26186 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26207 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26208 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26226 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26229 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26231 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26232 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26233 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26242 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26244 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26248 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26249 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26251 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26261 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26263 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26272 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26273 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26277 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26280 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26281 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26282 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26283 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26284 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26287 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:02 2006] [error] could not make child process 26289 exit, attempting to continue anyway
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:05 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:54 2006] [warn] module perl_module is already loaded, skipping
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:55 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 85.92.134.142:80 has no VirtualHosts
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:55 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 85.92.134.142:443 has no VirtualHosts
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:55 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 85.92.134.141:80 has no VirtualHosts
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:55 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 85.92.134.141:443 has no VirtualHosts
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:55 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 85.92.134.144:80 has no VirtualHosts
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:55 2006] [warn] NameVirtualHost 85.92.134.144:443 has no VirtualHosts
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:56 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.4.1 mod_perl/1.29 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:56 2006] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sun Jan 8 00:30:56 2006] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Sun Jan 8 00:31:45 2006] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

-edit 2-

Ooh, well, its up again. Loads are below 2, and apache responds. I haven't done anything special, so it can still happen at any time again I guess.

We'll see.