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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Duncan Brannen <db...@st-andrews.ac.uk> on 2002/09/03 17:07:18 UTC
[users@httpd] Size of Apache in memory
Hi All,
Anybody out there running Apache 1.3.26 on Solaris 8 with
SSL? We've got a few
servers around campus and one of them died recently while spouting cannot
fork process
messages. It looks like it ran out of memory & running top or ps show's
apache with SSL
fast cgi, mod_python and auth_ldap using 73M of ram per server process, our
main web
server with just auth_ldap is using 7M and a 3rd server running apache,
auth_ldap and SSL
using 34M
Looks like there's been a mention of this recently but..
Is this normal? It seems a huge jump from the 7M of the standard
install. If not - any thoughts on
what I may have done or what I can do to reduce the size. The Netra it's
running on has
been upgraded to have 1G of RAM but it's going to be hit heavily again at
the start of term & I'd
like it not to go splat.
Cheers,
Duncan
These opinions are mine, not those of the University of St. Andrews
The University's opinion is that I should be getting on with my work.
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Re: [users@httpd] Size of Apache in memory
Posted by Duncan Brannen <db...@st-andrews.ac.uk>.
At 11:17 03/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > Is this normal? It seems a huge jump from the 7M of the standard
> > install. If not - any thoughts on
> > what I may have done or what I can do to reduce the size. The Netra it's
> > running on has
> > been upgraded to have 1G of RAM but it's going to be hit heavily again at
> > the start of term & I'd
> > like it not to go splat.
>
>have you checked out MaxRequestsPerChild?
Cheers,
Yes, I have this at 0 on the main server & it seems to behave
but It's set at 10000 on this one & the memory usage is from startup.
It's doing some database queries but they should be fairly simple.
Dunk
># MaxRequestsPerChild: the number of requests each child process is
># allowed to process before the child dies. The child will exit so
># as to avoid problems after prolonged use when Apache (and maybe the
># libraries it uses) leak memory or other resources. On most systems, this
># isn't really needed, but a few (such as Solaris) do have notable leaks
># in the libraries. For these platforms, set to something like 10000
># or so; a setting of 0 means unlimited.
>
>73mb per process seems absurd, unless you are doing huge db queries that
>require several results to be stored in memory at one time.
>
>-Jacob
>http://www.listingbook.com
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] Size of Apache in memory
Posted by Jacob Coby <jc...@listingbook.com>.
> Is this normal? It seems a huge jump from the 7M of the standard
> install. If not - any thoughts on
> what I may have done or what I can do to reduce the size. The Netra it's
> running on has
> been upgraded to have 1G of RAM but it's going to be hit heavily again at
> the start of term & I'd
> like it not to go splat.
have you checked out MaxRequestsPerChild?
# MaxRequestsPerChild: the number of requests each child process is
# allowed to process before the child dies. The child will exit so
# as to avoid problems after prolonged use when Apache (and maybe the
# libraries it uses) leak memory or other resources. On most systems, this
# isn't really needed, but a few (such as Solaris) do have notable leaks
# in the libraries. For these platforms, set to something like 10000
# or so; a setting of 0 means unlimited.
73mb per process seems absurd, unless you are doing huge db queries that
require several results to be stored in memory at one time.
-Jacob
http://www.listingbook.com
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