Apache error log: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
 

Hi i have this error log in apache it doesnt seems to affect the system but in 4 o 5 days i have to restart the server cause its work really slow almost imposible to navigate the web pages hosted on it.

This is the last 50 lines apache log


[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:28 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:29 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun Apr 17 04:02:30 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:58 2011] [warn] child process 4293 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:58 2011] [warn] child process 10561 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:58 2011] [warn] child process 7235 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:58 2011] [warn] child process 622 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:59 2011] [warn] child process 4293 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:59 2011] [warn] child process 10561 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:59 2011] [warn] child process 7235 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:09:59 2011] [warn] child process 622 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Apr 18 19:10:01 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Apr 18 19:11:37 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 19:11:37 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 19:11:38 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 18 20:40:26 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Apr 18 20:41:25 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 20:41:25 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 20:41:26 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 18 21:02:44 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Apr 18 21:04:11 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 21:04:11 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 21:04:13 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 18 21:10:40 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Mon Apr 18 21:10:40 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 21:10:40 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 21:10:40 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 18 22:53:49 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Apr 18 22:55:18 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Apr 18 22:55:18 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Apr 18 22:55:19 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.16 configured -- resuming normal operations


I have a dedicated Linux 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 on i686 CentOS Linux 5.6

Apache version 2.2.17

PHP 5.2.16 (cli) (built: Dec 17 2010 14:09:03)


anyone knows what can be wrong?? :/

THANKS!

i look at the running processes.. is normal all that apache process??

ID Owner Size Command

2943 apache 58756 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
30489 apache 57680 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
18683 apache 57276 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2940 apache 57260 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
1306 apache 56448 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2924 apache 55672 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2916 apache 55660 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2401 apache 55428 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
10795 apache 55024 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
12308 apache 53920 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
18880 apache 53900 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2420 apache 53476 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2404 apache 52940 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2402 apache 52900 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
11914 apache 51864 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
11908 apache 51608 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
3210 apache 51380 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
15817 apache 51352 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
2931 apache 50748 kB /usr/sbin/httpd
12390 apache 47928 kB /usr/sbin/httpd

I solve it reinstalling apache and php

yun reinstall httpd

yum reinstall php

and till now i have no errors again