Everything has been updated to the latest version multiple times since the problem started. I noticed it first when my hosting provider upgraded to PHP 8.1 and no longer supports 7.4 or lower.
Is their a way to solve this without having to deactivate/activate with every edit? I frequently forget to reactivate the plugin and will have a site with fewer pictures. Thanks for any help.
]]>i’d appreciate any help or insight.
thanks much,
Angela
ping www.fallfishtenkara.com
PING www.fallfishtenkara.com (104.18.58.163) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 104.18.58.163: icmp_seq=1 ttl=61 time=1.60 ms
64 bytes from 104.18.58.163: icmp_seq=2 ttl=61 time=1.58 ms
64 bytes from 104.18.58.163: icmp_seq=3 ttl=61 time=1.50 ms
64 bytes from 104.18.58.163: icmp_seq=4 ttl=61 time=1.50 ms
^C
— www.fallfishtenkara.com ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.503/1.549/1.606/0.065 ms
Not to mention I am able to SSH into the server, so it would appear that the server is running fine
Next I run the command top
and the results come back:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 34.4 0.0 3:10.47 kswapd0
12337 isaact8+ 20 0 24940 1584 1064 R 8.6 0.2 0:00.04 top
1403 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 4.3 0.0 0:01.26 kworker/u3:1
11789 www-data 20 0 394080 7268 2656 R 4.3 0.7 0:03.03 apache2
11795 www-data 20 0 394080 7572 2672 D 4.3 0.7 0:02.89 apache2
11797 www-data 20 0 394336 7172 2748 R 4.3 0.7 0:03.02 apache2
11822 www-data 20 0 393828 9144 5652 R 4.3 0.9 0:02.84 apache2
11830 www-data 20 0 392036 7184 3600 R 4.3 0.7 0:02.82 apache2
11893 www-data 20 0 393060 7732 4412 R 4.3 0.8 0:02.61 apache2
11977 www-data 20 0 392040 9740 5664 R 4.3 1.0 0:02.43 apache2
12095 www-data 20 0 392036 7632 4996 R 4.3 0.7 0:02.34 apache2
1 root 20 0 33472 120 120 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.90 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
6 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 kworker/u2:0
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:17.88 rcu_sched
A quick check on google tells me that kswapd0 is process that manages virtual memory… So I’m thinking that I’m having memory allocation issues so I run the command df -h
and the results come back
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 487M 8.0K 487M 1% /dev
tmpfs 100M 336K 100M 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT 30G 8.7G 20G 32% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 498M 0 498M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
and the command free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 994 930 63 16 0 22
-/+ buffers/cache: 907 86
Swap: 2047 1524 523
I am concerned about the amount free memory in the buffer/cache row so I run the command ps aux | more
and the results come back
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 33472 32 ? Ss Jun07 0:01 /sbin/init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [kworker/0:0H]
root 7 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:21 [rcu_sched]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:16 [rcuos/0]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [rcu_bh]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [rcuob/0]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [migration/0]
root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [khelper]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [kdevtmpfs]
root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [netns]
root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [writeback]
root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [kintegrityd]
root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [bioset]
root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [kworker/u3:0]
root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [kblockd]
root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [ata_sff]
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun07 0:00 [khubd]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [md]
root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun07 0:00 [devfreq_wq]
I’ve been following this article mostly https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/what-to-do-when-your-website-goes-down/ it is a little old but I feel that it is still applicable to my situation. At this point after I’ve run the command ps aux | more
and I see that Apache is not running I’m pretty sure my issue is that Apache has crashed.
When I run the command /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
my website comes back online, sometimes for a few hours sometime less than that…
Looking into the error.log file I find this:
[Tue Jun 07 21:37:50.727260 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1709] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Jun 07 21:37:51.685688 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13608] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.17 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 07 21:37:51.685791 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Tue Jun 07 21:39:45.617022 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13687] [client 108.162.237.250:50121] /var/www/wp-content/updraft/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://vaultpress.com
[Tue Jun 07 21:39:45.881250 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13655] [client 173.245.52.140:54743] /var/www/wp-content/updraft/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://vaultpress.com
[Tue Jun 07 21:39:46.198784 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13697] [client 173.245.52.140:17020] /var/www/wp-content/updraft/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://vaultpress.com
[Tue Jun 07 21:39:46.738494 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13687] [client 108.162.237.250:35083] /var/www/wp-content/updraft/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://vaultpress.com
[Tue Jun 07 21:39:47.268006 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13655] [client 108.162.237.250:43514] /var/www/wp-content/updraft/.htaccess: deny not allowed here, referer: https://vaultpress.com
[Tue Jun 07 21:44:54.466348 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13838] [client 162.158.57.65:21824] /var/www/wp-content/plugins/akismet/.htaccess: Require not allowed here, referer: https://www.fallfishten$
[Tue Jun 07 21:44:55.475237 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13839] [client 162.158.57.29:49788] /var/www/wp-content/plugins/akismet/.htaccess: Require not allowed here, referer: https://www.fallfishten$
[Tue Jun 07 21:45:16.580154 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13859] [client 162.158.57.65:15744] /var/www/wp-content/plugins/akismet/.htaccess: Require not allowed here, referer: https://www.fallfishten$
[Tue Jun 07 21:45:16.672686 2016] [core:alert] [pid 13816] [client 162.158.57.29:34160] /var/www/wp-content/plugins/akismet/.htaccess: Require not allowed here, referer: https://www.fallfishten$
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.437769 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00052: child pid 14133 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.437882 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00052: child pid 14275 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.437900 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00052: child pid 14325 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.437914 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00052: child pid 14329 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.437950 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00052: child pid 14182 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.437998 2016] [core:notice] [pid 13608] AH00052: child pid 14005 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:14.438077 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13608] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:27.262255 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1116] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.17 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 07 22:03:27.264088 2016] [core:notice] [pid 1116] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Jun 08 03:26:17.729067 2016] [core:notice] [pid 1116] AH00051: child pid 12012 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2
[Wed Jun 08 03:26:17.843558 2016] [core:notice] [pid 1116] AH00051: child pid 12033 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2
[Wed Jun 08 03:26:17.843974 2016] [core:notice] [pid 1116] AH00051: child pid 12076 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/apache2
[Wed Jun 08 03:26:18.850228 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1116] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Jun 08 03:26:19.538198 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 12749] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.17 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jun 08 03:26:19.538497 2016] [core:notice] [pid 12749] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
The issue started within a day or so after I updated my server. I ran the command sudo apt-get update && time sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
which I have done about a dozen times in the past with no issues.
At this point I am totally lost. Support from my host said that “Your apache instance is core dumping. You may need to use advanced debug tools like strace and gdb to debug the issues you are experiencing with your apache server….core dumping is a sign that either a plugin or module is misbehaving, or it can be a sign that a process is hitting a OOM event (out of memory) and is being forcefully closed.” Problem is I have no idea how to debug with strace or gdb…
I am self hosting on a Digital Ocean droplet, so any help or pointers would be appreciated.
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Has anybody else experienced this issue?
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Weird thing is though, that when this happens, 1) it takes a VERY long time to submit, and 2) the site goes down completely for a brief time.
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I am wondering how I could fix this problem or if there is something particular I should look for. My site is here:
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I know this issue has been discussed, but not seeing a definite solution and wondering if anyone could help on my site. Thanks!
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