Infomation on Apache Threads

[wwwolf]

Hello,
I'm fairly new to Apache and have a problem that's been stumping me for months. I'm trying to get a small/mid-sized Joomla site with some custom code up and running, but after about 8 hours it always crashes with PHP errors.
I've noticed that if I up the ThreadsPerChild count in httpd.conf I can keep the site going for 24 or 48 hours.
Does anyone know of a way to look at what Apache's threads are doing? I'm fairly sure it's some of my code that's causing the issue, but I have no way to see where/how the threads are getting locked up.

Any response would be appreciated, this has been driving me nuts, thanks.

 

[RhythmAce]

What platform are you running on? On linux you can see how many processes/child processes are running at any given time. You said something about custom code. If you run joomla without that code or use a different cms do you still have the same problem?

 

[wwwolf]

Hi RhythmAce,
It's running on a Windows 2003 system.
I'm sorry to say that I can't really remove the custom code, it's on a production system. As it takes 8+ hours for Apache to fail, that's too long for me to leave the site disabled (the custom code runs the main feature on the site).
I do have it on a test system as well, (also Windows), but I'm not able to replicate the issue on the test system (I'm assuming I don't have enough load).