Plesk Panel php script running for hours

[Al Crowley]

Hi all,

I have had an intermittent problem with Plesk php scripts running for hours on my server sucking up resources. When we first installed, about a year ago, I saw it maybe once a month. It seems to be getting more frequent and I've seen it twice this week!

I've used process explorer to see what is going on a few times. I recently started keeping track of the specific command line for the runaway process as shown by process explorer. Here are the two different command lines I've seen:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\admin\bin\php.exe" -d auto_prepend_file="" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\billing\\lib\admin\sbin\runevents.php"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\admin\bin\php.exe" -q -dauto_prepend_file="" -c php.ini "C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\admin\plib\DailyMaintainance\script.php"

When I've found these processes they have been running for hours. I find them because the server performance will get really bad when it is happening. These processes will take a full CPU slowing down any CPU intensive website.

Does anyone have an idea why I'm getting this problem? Any ideas on how to make it stop?

Thanks,
-Al