[BlueOnyx:13059] Possible attack - Limited resources

[Marcello Torchio]

Hi,

i'm having trouble with my BO server.

Few minutes ago one of my customer contact me saying that his website was
down.

I've connected to server through SSH and i was unable to restart httpd.

There were 3 httpd processes "froze"

So i'v done kill -9 PID and restarted httpd

All works fine.


The problem is that if I restart httpd all the memory (RAM) will be
completely used.

running top from terminal says that there are a lot op httpd processes,
responsible of that big RAM usage.

Is there any kind of DoS attack?

What can i do?

Thanks

Marcello
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