Joomla + suPHP + ispconfig + Etch causes too many processes!

[Insane1]

Please help me. I started a server with ispconfig on debian etch. I secured the server with suphp. All done with the manuals here. But now, i got a big error. I moved my last page to the server and now, THIS site doesnt work. All the other Sites work, a smaller Joomla Site, too. But this Joomla Page doesn't.

I checked out the memory and i saw, the webuser of the page causes 30-40 php5-cgi processes with hundrets of MBs Memory Usage. The Page timed out with a 500 error.

i checked all the permissions but the error.log still gives me just one error:

[Fri Apr 18 08:41:30 2008] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Premature end of script headers: index.php

But all the permissions are correct! And the Page runs out of memory.

Can you help me how to find the reason? is there a logfile i didnt find? How can i locate the script, which causes the error?

[falko]

What's the value of memory_limit from your php.ini?
What's the output of

top

?

[Insane1]

memory_limit = 64M

And top shows

12434 root      18   0  163m  17m 9.8m S  0.0  4.5   0:00.36 apache2
15532 web16_go  16   0  114m  22m 8940 S  0.0  5.9   0:00.12 php5-cgi
 1446 mysql     15   0  153m  32m 4104 S 99.9  8.5  98:47.29 mysqld
15219 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3152 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.01 apache2
 2179 admispco  15   0 33516 5332 3148 S  0.0  1.4   0:05.79 ispconfig_httpd
15221 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3144 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15298 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3140 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
24795 admispco  15   0 33520 5300 3116 S  0.0  1.3   0:05.33 ispconfig_httpd
15215 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3076 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.01 apache2
15222 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3072 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15216 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15220 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15223 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15290 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15218 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3060 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15217 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3056 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15224 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3052 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15466 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3052 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
 9875 root      16   0 36788 2692 2120 S  0.0  0.7   0:00.00 sshd
 1534 postgrey  15   0 34444 5808 2108 S  0.0  1.5   0:02.87 postgrey

web16_go is the web with the problem. All the other webs run perfect!

(Lüneburg germany? Da könnten wir ja auch deutsch sprechen )

[falko]

Originally Posted by Insane1

memory_limit = 64M

Have you tried to increase the memory_limit, e.g. to 128M?

Originally Posted by Insane1

And top shows

12434 root      18   0  163m  17m 9.8m S  0.0  4.5   0:00.36 apache2
15532 web16_go  16   0  114m  22m 8940 S  0.0  5.9   0:00.12 php5-cgi
 1446 mysql     15   0  153m  32m 4104 S 99.9  8.5  98:47.29 mysqld
15219 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3152 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.01 apache2
 2179 admispco  15   0 33516 5332 3148 S  0.0  1.4   0:05.79 ispconfig_httpd
15221 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3144 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15298 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3140 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
24795 admispco  15   0 33520 5300 3116 S  0.0  1.3   0:05.33 ispconfig_httpd
15215 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3076 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.01 apache2
15222 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3072 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15216 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15220 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15223 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15290 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3064 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15218 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3060 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15217 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3056 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15224 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3052 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
15466 www-data  15   0  164m  10m 3052 S  0.0  2.7   0:00.00 apache2
 9875 root      16   0 36788 2692 2120 S  0.0  0.7   0:00.00 sshd
 1534 postgrey  15   0 34444 5808 2108 S  0.0  1.5   0:02.87 postgrey

I'm interested in the beginning of the top output. Can you post it again, maybe also the output of

cat /proc/meminfo

?

Originally Posted by Insane1

(Lüneburg germany? Da könnten wir ja auch deutsch sprechen )

Yes, but then nobody else can understand us.

[SamTzu]

What Joomla version is the website using?
What extensions (components, modules, plugins, etc) is the website using?
What version?

I hear tell that a lot of spam is sent these days using old "buggy" php code.
Joomla 1.0.x has had many security flaws.

Upgrading to 1.5 may help.