Claus Niesen wrote:

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> The console terminal didn't respond either.  I could use Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch consoles but the console terminal wouldn't respond at all to key strokes.  I didn't see any error messages on the console itself either.  Faulty hardware or is it lack of RAM due to the multiple apache instances?

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Oddly enough, I had this same problem when I set a console timeout on

our external web server (internal was fine with it). If anything caused

a console timeout (ssh, direct console access, etc) the box stopped

spawning new processes yet allowed existing ones to continue. I ended up

taking the console timeout off and it cleared up the problem. Could be

something as simple as that.

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