[BlueOnyx:13064] Re: Possible attack - Limited resources

[Marcello Torchio]

Yes I am , why ?
Il giorno 20/mag/2013 09:16, "Senthil Ramasamy" <samy at maxi.net.au> ha
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> Hi Marcello,****
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> Are you running wordpress on your server?****
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> Regards,****
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> Samy****
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> *From:* blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:
> blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] *On Behalf Of *Marcello Torchio
> *Sent:* Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:20 PM
> *To:* BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> *Subject:* [BlueOnyx:13059] Possible attack - Limited resources****
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> Hi,****
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> i'm having trouble with my BO server.****
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> Few minutes ago one of my customer contact me saying that his website was
> down.****
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> I've connected to server through SSH and i was unable to restart httpd.***
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> There were 3 httpd processes "froze"****
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> So i'v done kill -9 PID and restarted httpd****
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> All works fine.****
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> The problem is that if I restart httpd all the memory (RAM) will be
> completely used.****
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> running top from terminal says that there are a lot op httpd processes,
> responsible of that big RAM usage.****
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> Is there any kind of DoS attack?****
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> What can i do?****
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> Thanks****
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> Marcello****
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