title: Apache2: server-status reported value for "requests/sec" is wrong. What am I doing wrong?
body: <p>I am running Apache2 on Linux (Ubuntu 9.10).</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to monitor the load on my server using mod_status.</p>
  
  <p>There are 2 things that puzzle me (see cut-and-paste below):</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>The CPU load is reported as a ridiculously small number,<br>
  whereas, "uptime" reports a number between 0.05 and 0.15 at the same time.</p></li>
  <li><p>The "requests/sec" is also ridiculously low (0.06)<br>
  when I know there are at least 10 requests coming in per second right now.<br>
  (You can see there are close to a quarter million "accesses" - this sounds right.)</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I am wondering whether this is a bug (if so, is there a fix/workaround),<br>
  or maybe a configuration error (but I can't imagine how).</p>
  
  <p>Any insights would be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>-- David Jones</p>
  
  <pre><code>- - - - -
  Current Time: Friday, 07-Jan-2011 13:48:09 PST
  Restart Time: Thursday, 25-Nov-2010 14:50:59 PST
  Parent Server Generation: 0
  Server uptime: 42 days 22 hours 57 minutes 10 seconds
  Total accesses: 238015 - Total Traffic: 91.5 MB
  CPU Usage: u2.15 s1.54 cu0 cs0 - 9.94e-5% CPU load
  .0641 requests/sec - 25 B/second - 402 B/request
  11 requests currently being processed, 2 idle workers
  - - - - -
  </code></pre>