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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Tony Mobily <me...@mobily1.com> on 2011/02/15 13:38:02 UTC
[users@httpd] Incredible amount of memory allocated by Apache?
Hi,
I am very confused by some output in my server. I am hoping my good
karma for running an online magazine about free software will help me
get some advice, instead of being laughed as...
Top is giving me this:
op - 04:28:17 up 48 days, 8:56, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.32, 0.36
Tasks: 140 total, 1 running, 139 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 15.7%us, 4.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 79.0%id, 0.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8072080k total, 7585872k used, 486208k free, 62404k buffers
Swap: 1959888k total, 1959852k used, 36k free, 1495040k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2821 mysql 15 0 481m 105m 3612 S 21.6 1.3 3282:41 mysqld
16708 apache 16 0 5570m 2.9g 3636 S 20.3 38.1 0:08.80 httpd
16941 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3588 S 12.3 37.8 0:03.48 httpd
16699 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3616 S 6.7 37.8 0:05.26 httpd
16843 apache 15 0 5572m 2.9g 4540 S 5.3 37.9 0:09.73 httpd
16970 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3676 S 5.3 37.9 0:08.62 httpd
16701 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3620 S 3.0 37.9 0:07.15 httpd
17371 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3548 S 1.0 37.7 0:01.97 httpd
17577 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3576 S 0.3 37.7 0:01.12 httpd 15/02/11 20:30:43
2.9g!! That's 3Gb for Apache?!?
ps' output is even scarier:
[root@centos555208 ~]# ps -ylChttpd --sort=rss
S UID PID PPID C PRI NI RSS SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
S 48 1392 2930 0 75 0 3653712 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:00 httpd
S 48 1072 2930 0 75 0 3653784 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
S 48 1129 2930 0 75 0 3653788 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
S 48 927 2930 0 75 0 3653792 1065487 - ? 00:00:01 httpd
S 48 924 2930 0 75 0 3653812 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
S 48 990 2930 0 75 0 3653840 1065485 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
S 48 926 2930 0 75 0 3654716 1066004 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
S 48 925 2930 0 75 0 3654940 1066004 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
S 48 929 2930 0 75 0 3654948 1066001 semtim ? 00:00:04 httpd
S 48 1210 2930 0 75 0 3659136 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
S 48 1127 2930 0 75 0 3659232 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
S 48 930 2930 0 75 0 3659616 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
S 48 933 2930 0 75 0 3659616 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
S 48 965 2930 0 75 0 3660488 1066004 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
S 0 2930 1 0 78 0 3662976 1065484 stext ? 01:53:07 httpd
S 48 949 2930 0 75 0 3669976 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
S 48 934 2930 0 75 0 3671048 1065484 - ? 00:00:02 httpd
S 48 961 2930 0 75 0 3672244 1066001 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
Is something going _very_ wrong with my server?
Any hints?
Thanks,
Merc.
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Re: [users@httpd] Incredible amount of memory allocated by Apache?
Posted by Tom Evans <te...@googlemail.com>.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Tony Mobily <me...@mobily1.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am very confused by some output in my server. I am hoping my good
> karma for running an online magazine about free software will help me
> get some advice, instead of being laughed as...
> Top is giving me this:
> op - 04:28:17 up 48 days, 8:56, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.32, 0.36
> Tasks: 140 total, 1 running, 139 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 15.7%us, 4.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 79.0%id, 0.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
> Mem: 8072080k total, 7585872k used, 486208k free, 62404k buffers
> Swap: 1959888k total, 1959852k used, 36k free, 1495040k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2821 mysql 15 0 481m 105m 3612 S 21.6 1.3 3282:41 mysqld
> 16708 apache 16 0 5570m 2.9g 3636 S 20.3 38.1 0:08.80 httpd
> 16941 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3588 S 12.3 37.8 0:03.48 httpd
> 16699 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3616 S 6.7 37.8 0:05.26 httpd
> 16843 apache 15 0 5572m 2.9g 4540 S 5.3 37.9 0:09.73 httpd
> 16970 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3676 S 5.3 37.9 0:08.62 httpd
> 16701 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3620 S 3.0 37.9 0:07.15 httpd
> 17371 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3548 S 1.0 37.7 0:01.97 httpd
> 17577 apache 15 0 5570m 2.9g 3576 S 0.3 37.7 0:01.12 httpd 15/02/11 20:30:43
>
> 2.9g!! That's 3Gb for Apache?!?
>
> ps' output is even scarier:
>
> [root@centos555208 ~]# ps -ylChttpd --sort=rss
> S UID PID PPID C PRI NI RSS SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
> S 48 1392 2930 0 75 0 3653712 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:00 httpd
> S 48 1072 2930 0 75 0 3653784 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
> S 48 1129 2930 0 75 0 3653788 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
> S 48 927 2930 0 75 0 3653792 1065487 - ? 00:00:01 httpd
> S 48 924 2930 0 75 0 3653812 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
> S 48 990 2930 0 75 0 3653840 1065485 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
> S 48 926 2930 0 75 0 3654716 1066004 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
> S 48 925 2930 0 75 0 3654940 1066004 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
> S 48 929 2930 0 75 0 3654948 1066001 semtim ? 00:00:04 httpd
> S 48 1210 2930 0 75 0 3659136 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
> S 48 1127 2930 0 75 0 3659232 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:01 httpd
> S 48 930 2930 0 75 0 3659616 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
> S 48 933 2930 0 75 0 3659616 1065484 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
> S 48 965 2930 0 75 0 3660488 1066004 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
> S 0 2930 1 0 78 0 3662976 1065484 stext ? 01:53:07 httpd
> S 48 949 2930 0 75 0 3669976 1065487 semtim ? 00:00:02 httpd
> S 48 934 2930 0 75 0 3671048 1065484 - ? 00:00:02 httpd
> S 48 961 2930 0 75 0 3672244 1066001 semtim ? 00:00:03 httpd
>
> Is something going _very_ wrong with my server?
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Merc.
>
Do you run a lot of PHP websites (or a few particularly heavy ones,
like joomla)? That sort of usage is 'normal' for them.
You could run php as fast cgi, which would move the PHP interpreter
out of apache and give you a better idea of what is using your memory
like that. I would be quite surprised if it was apache doing that!
Cheers
Tom
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