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I thought you were going to berate me for missing the leading ' off "'InglIS" ;-)

I logged into wetinred.com via SSH and investigated a little. The server isn't overloaded, it's very happy. But before long, it amassed 231 zombie php.cgi processes while I was watching (which cannot be killed via kill/killall). With no positive leads from Freenode #dreamhost either, I sent off a support ticket. The support guy simply blamed the zombie processes, the cause of which seemed transient and totally unknown. However, the problem persists now all of those have disappeared (and haven't returned). I've sent him a copy/paste of ps showing the very happy server, but DreamHost don't seem to have a clue (their support staff are pretty useless). (Yes it affects people besides me ... I'm the Webmaster, I'm writing because my users are complaining!)

I'm not overloading the server that I know of, and the problem has come on all by itself without me altering any code on my site. So I'm at a loss. I don't know how to fix this one. I'd have to find out, somehow, what exactly is happening to the dl.php script when it dies.

And I don't mind if you post the clip elsewhere ... may as well, my site's hosed. I think he was asking for the rest of the clips from The Loft, which I showed him. But he needs to join for those and, right now, I have no idea what to do about membership since hardly anyone seems interested in joining and I have no idea what a fair rate is for, say, 2-month memberships.