awstats produces high load processes seem to be stuck

[gilbert]

Hi,

I have noticed that there are many processess running
/bin/sh -c /var/www/ispcp/engine/awstats/awstats_updateall.pl now -awstatsprog=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

that seem to be stuck from several days ago.

The load goes sky high on the server until I kill these processes.

Is there anyway to prevent this?
Where should I be looking for the root cause.

I notice that one site seems to get it stuck.
the log file for this domain is 402M

[rbtux]

running awstats more often might help clearing this issue...

[supaplex]

How often does it normally run in rc6? Where do you adjust the frequency that it runs?

I recall there being a cool program I once had on a FreeBSD machine that would act like tail, but record the inode and filesize as the new offset to start at. Does awstats cache this information to seek() into between jobs?

[supaplex]

/etc/cron.d/ispcp snippet

Code:

# AWStats
# 15    */6     *       *       *       root /var/www/ispcp/engine/awstats/awstats_updateall.pl now -awstatsprog=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
# changed on 5/2 due to http://www.isp-control.net/forum/thread-6581.html
15      *       *       *       *       root /var/www/ispcp/engine/awstats/awstats_updateall.pl now -awstatsprog=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

I guess I will see how this goes.