My httpd service is weird

[zukk]

Ok I have a big trouble today. Suddently without any kind of modifications to the server, it's gone crazy today. Got a couple of httpd dead but subsys locked messages , and now when I write:

[root@plesk init.d]# ./httpd status

I get

[root@plesk init.d]# ./httpd status
httpd (pid 5291 5290 5289 5288 5287 5286 5285 5284 5283 5280) is running...
[root@plesk init.d]#

Several httpd proceses but my site www.quickfileupload.com doesn't work anymore like it should.

What's happening with my server ? What caused those multiple httpd proceses to run the same time ? if I write:

killall httpd

I have after

[root@plesk init.d]# ./httpd status
httpd dead but subsys locked
[root@plesk init.d]#

If I write

[root@plesk init.d]# ./httpd start
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[root@plesk init.d]#

it starts but when I check the status again

[root@plesk init.d]# ./httpd status
httpd (pid 5324 5323 5322 5321 5320 5319 5318 5317 5316 5313) is running...
[root@plesk init.d]#

again, several httpd proceses are started what should I do ? I really need your help

 

[aernative]

I think this is quite normal, apache normally pools a number of threads for its use.

I think maybey you are looking in the wrong place.

 

[zukk]

How come the other day it was a single process and my website worked just fine and now it's all screwed up

 

[Highland]

If you just launched your server it's quite possible that you only had one process. Normal production servers have multiple processes going, however.

Check your error logs and see if there's a problem with your domain config.