Odd Apache Server Status Requests

[ottott]

I am having random issues with server load on my forum regardless of how many users are online (from 1 to 20 usually) and my host has not been much of a help so I have been poking around a bit and noticed this in my apache server status page.

There are a ton of NULL requests by what seem to be legit users who are actually logged in and posting at the same time, I am wondering if this could somehow be causing an issue.

I have checked all the logs to no avail so I'm hoping maybe someone has an idea as to what this means and even more hopeful it will speed up my server. We were purring along on a Celeron 1.2 with 512MB so I thought a VPS might save us a few bucks but have had issues since moving

Thanks in advance

Srv PID Acc M CPU SS Req Conn Child Slot Client VHost Request
0-0 - 0/0/6980 . 0.01 11 0 0.0 0.00 216.88 15.195.201.87 www.cooltoys.com NULL
1-0 14003 0/14/7209 W 0.00 96 0 0.0 0.02 229.28 200.37.143.197 www.cooltoys.com GET /ct/images/smilies/fap.gif HTTP/1.1
2-0 3075 0/47/6926 _ 0.98 13 1020 0.0 3.31 219.41 180.76.5.23 www.cooltoys.com GET /ct/showthread.php?t=6456&page=88 HTTP/1.1
3-0 21785 0/3/6980 _ 0.31 8 2001 0.0 0.10 215.86 180.76.5.56 www.cooltoys.com GET /ct/showthread.php?p=13566&mode=threaded HTTP/1.1
4-0 17650 0/26/6215 _ 1.59 13 816 0.0 1.33 209.43 76.77.75.3 www.cooltoys.com NULL
5-0 - 0/0/6855 . 0.72 15 574 0.0 0.00 207.97 66.249.71.106 www.cooltoys.com GET /ct/showthread.php?p=59588&langid=a HTTP/1.1
6-0 1422 0/103/6662 _ 5.05 3 14923 0.0 5.06 207.75 190.17.15.215 www.cooltoys.com NULL
7-0 - 0/0/6284 . 0.09 14 215 0.0 0.00 205.84 216.124.18.10 www.cooltoys.com NULL
8-0 - 0/0/5833 . 3.19 49 1313 0.0 0.00 190.89 66.249.71.204 www.cooltoys.com GET /ct/showthread.php?t=2887&page=1587 HTTP/1.1
9-0 18044 0/10/5755 W 0.00 12 0 0.0 1.06 175.40 190.118.160.9 www.cooltoys.com GET /ct/images/smilies/fap.gif HTTP/1.1
10-0 17676 2/34/5848 C 2.14 1 0 2.8 0.07 190.95 158.14.80.140 www.cooltoys.com NULL
11-0 - 0/0/4858 . 1.06 73 32 0.0 0.00 166.19 190.233.129.19 www.cooltoys.com NULL

 

[mr.applesauce]

Check that your site isnt infected.

 

[ottott]

Check that your site isnt infected.

Well I've checked for rootkits, made sure everything is up to date and spent countless hours trying to tweak apache/mysql to fix the issue and still getting a high server load and a ton of NULL apache requests.

Had the same site on a cpanel vps with less resources before and never had an issue, It doesn't seem to be DA related but more of a apache/sql issue and I've done everything I can think of that might help and been blown off by my hose (jaguarpc) with generic replies it's fixed to no avail.

Since their latest fix I am dealing with high sql loads and when I try to restart it won't unless I reboot.

Mind you the site was loading.. slowly but was working but it appears the mysql process is somehow screwed up or stops responding.

[root@vps ~]# service mysqld stop
ERROR! MySQL manager or server PID file could not be found!
[root@vps ~]# service mysqld start
Starting MySQL..................................................................................................... ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file.

 

[zEitEr]

PM me if you need my help. I'm ready to give you a commerce service if you need one.