/server-status has hundreds of dummy processes

[ujjain]

I have about 5 actual processes from real IP's and more than 150 "fake" processes like this in my Apache Server Status page.

What can be the reason for this?

100-0	-	0/0/169	. 	0.00	28881	0	0.0	0.00	9.68 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
101-0	-	0/0/40	. 	0.00	28882	0	0.0	0.00	1.98 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
102-0	-	0/0/26	. 	0.53	28816	0	0.0	0.00	1.35 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
103-0	-	0/0/19	. 	0.13	28856	0	0.0	0.00	0.80 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
104-0	-	0/0/56	. 	5.24	28736	0	0.0	0.00	0.84 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
105-0	-	0/0/20	. 	0.46	28810	0	0.0	0.00	1.21 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
106-0	-	0/0/22	. 	1.14	28814	0	0.0	0.00	0.12 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
107-0	-	0/0/21	. 	0.00	28880	0	0.0	0.00	0.58 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
108-0	-	0/0/18	. 	0.13	28858	0	0.0	0.00	0.51 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
109-0	-	0/0/16	. 	0.00	28895	0	0.0	0.00	0.94 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
110-0	-	0/0/41	. 	0.98	28821	0	0.0	0.00	1.66 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
111-0	-	0/0/16	. 	0.87	41367	0	0.0	0.00	2.34 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
112-0	-	0/0/13	. 	1.11	41275	0	0.0	0.00	0.58 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
113-0	-	0/0/51	. 	0.54	41326	0	0.0	0.00	2.84 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
114-0	-	0/0/2	. 	0.15	41381	0	0.0	0.00	0.00 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
115-0	-	0/0/63	. 	5.48	41157	0	0.0	0.00	3.09 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
116-0	-	0/0/89	. 	6.60	41136	0	0.0	0.00	4.50 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
117-0	-	0/0/7	. 	0.31	41359	0	0.0	0.00	0.65 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
118-0	-	0/0/10	. 	0.79	41282	0	0.0	0.00	0.07 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
119-0	-	0/0/11	. 	0.74	41287	0	0.0	0.00	0.05 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
120-0	-	0/0/10	. 	0.66	41288	0	0.0	0.00	0.07 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
121-0	-	0/0/150	. 	12.95	40918	0	0.0	0.00	4.22 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
122-0	-	0/0/6	. 	0.33	41342	31	0.0	0.00	0.04 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
123-0	-	0/0/46	. 	2.45	41304	0	0.0	0.00	1.72 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
124-0	-	0/0/3	. 	0.17	41352	0	0.0	0.00	0.18 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
125-0	-	0/0/15	. 	0.60	41281	0	0.0	0.00	0.84 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
126-0	-	0/0/55	. 	0.67	41296	0	0.0	0.00	1.69 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
127-0	-	0/0/16	. 	1.76	41341	0	0.0	0.00	0.43 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
128-0	-	0/0/13	. 	1.49	41260	0	0.0	0.00	0.09 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
129-0	-	0/0/37	. 	0.66	41328	0	0.0	0.00	2.84 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
130-0	-	0/0/26	. 	1.89	41340	0	0.0	0.00	1.75 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
131-0	-	0/0/43	. 	0.83	41299	0	0.0	0.00	2.03 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
132-0	-	0/0/2	. 	0.15	41371	0	0.0	0.00	0.00 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
133-0	-	0/0/17	. 	1.00	41377	0	0.0	0.00	2.77 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
134-0	-	0/0/41	. 	1.63	41421	0	0.0	0.00	5.15 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
135-0	-	0/0/14	. 	0.18	41361	0	0.0	0.00	0.16 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
136-0	-	0/0/10	. 	0.28	41307	0	0.0	0.00	0.73 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
137-0	-	0/0/16	. 	1.06	41262	0	0.0	0.00	1.33 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
138-0	-	0/0/21	. 	0.17	41356	120	0.0	0.00	3.32 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
139-0	-	0/0/3	. 	0.16	41372	40	0.0	0.00	0.05 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
140-0	-	0/0/12	. 	1.85	41353	0	0.0	0.00	0.25 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
141-0	-	0/0/15	. 	0.29	41368	0	0.0	0.00	0.13 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
142-0	-	0/0/26	. 	0.24	41271	0	0.0	0.00	0.67 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
143-0	-	0/0/25	. 	1.12	41276	0	0.0	0.00	0.73 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
144-0	-	0/0/34	. 	1.73	41362	0	0.0	0.00	3.40 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
145-0	-	0/0/39	. 	2.38	41399	0	0.0	0.00	1.45 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
146-0	-	0/0/36	. 	1.56	41261	0	0.0	0.00	6.64 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
147-0	-	0/0/58	. 	2.63	41325	0	0.0	0.00	4.01 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
148-0	-	0/0/81	. 	6.08	41152	0	0.0	0.00	5.25 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
149-0	-	0/0/27	. 	1.53	41398	0	0.0	0.00	1.47 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
150-0	-	0/0/23	. 	1.61	41385	0	0.0	0.00	0.73 	::1	directadmin01.domainname.tld:80	OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

Screenshot:

I am trying to increase the performance as there have been some performance issues lately. An important website with 100.000 page views daily has been rewritten in PHP (it was CGI) and this did wonders, but I a still am trying to improve the performance more.

There are 14 Apache processes. I have set timeout values very low, so I genuinely wonder what creates all these fake processes. I can restart Apache, but within a few minutes the Server Status page is filled again with such entries.

 

[ditto]

After I upgraded to Apache 2.4.x I have the same as you on all my servers. You put this "directadmin01.domainname.tld" in the example. My guess is that you server host name is there? If so, the problem is identical on my servers. I have not noticed any problems in performance, wich is still good. My only guess is that this:

::1

Must mean it is related to IPV6. If anybody has more information about this, please share.

 

[chatwizrd]

Yup its normal.