multiple direct admin services running?

[remco1]

Yesterday 17 march at 1:00 my CPU usage went to the roof. After some investigestion, I saw that there where 3 times a Direct admin service running.
After restarting the direct admin service, CPU went back to normal...

Can this be caused by an automated update that went wrong?
DirectAdmin 1.63.6 to 1.63.7?

 

[factor]

I have not seen this.
What OS and version are you on?
Also is the Server all updated?
When is the last time you ran ./build all?

 

[Richard G]

saw that there where 3 times a Direct admin service running.

Exactly how and where did you see that?

Because if you look via SSH you can see this:

root@server # ps faux
root      5328  0.0  0.0 1259324 35072 ?       Ssl  Mar28   4:29 /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody    5342  0.0  0.0 966312  7008 ?        Sl   Mar28   0:00  \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29082  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:46   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29088  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:46   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29089  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:46   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29093  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:46   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29105  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:46   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29106  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:46   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29223  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:47   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29227  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:47   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29231  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:47   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin
nobody   29232  0.0  0.0 966312  1856 ?        S    20:47   0:00      \_ /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin

But that is normal.

 

[factor]

But that is normal.

True I assumed he meant like 40 or 50 instances.

 

[Richard G]

like 40 or 50 instances.

That is a possibility, so that's why I asked where and how he seen this. Might also be he has seen 3 of them in under services in DA itself.

 

[pat0]

I don't know what's the point with so many directadmin instances running. In old versions there was 4-5 active, now >10.
A clean installation of Directadmin already uses more RAM on the server than cPanel which has never been really optimized...

 

[factor]

seen 3 of them

OH true..

 

[Richard G]

In old versions there was 4-5 active, now >10

As far as I know it's just 10. But you can set that lower in the directadmin.conf file if you want less.
Just change the numservers=10 variable to a lower number and restart DA.