I have been experiencing several site crashes on my server for the past 2 weeks, pouring through the logs I am constantly seeing Apache errors with Apache zombie processes, reaching max clients and crashing, and I am pulling my hair out trying to run down the errors and configuring my server to deal with them.
Then I tried to get onto IPSBeyond and looky there it is down too? So was invisionize, this site is up - FOR NOW, I am wondering perhaps there is some kind of exploit being aimed at invisonboard forum sites?
HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF MY APACHE ERRORS IN THE LOGS
child process 16029 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL,
[error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients settings
most of them can be fixed by restarting apache or rebooting, but the cpu usage goes through the roof as soon as these errors occur, lots of "guest" in the client list, bots no doubt hitting my IO ports, something is going on - and its seems to be directed at invisionboard sites.
