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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Marten Lehmann <le...@cnm.de> on 2008/01/25 15:01:17 UTC
[users@httpd] Hugh httpd-process
Hello,
using "top", I noticed this output:
top - 08:48:40 up 24 days, 17:21, 1 user, load average: 173.78, 113.81,
52.58
Tasks: 449 total, 47 running, 397 sleeping, 0 stopped, 5 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.2% us, 56.6% sy, 0.4% ni, 0.0% id, 37.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.2% si
Mem: 2056328k total, 2038468k used, 17860k free, 3216k buffers
Swap: 2040244k total, 2040244k used, 0k free, 29344k cached
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND
68 root 16 0 49 16:59.70 0.0 0 0 0 R kswapd0
17689 nobody 16 0 12 1:00.98 65.2 3665m 1.3g 1832 D httpd
21497 u11754 16 0 4 0:00.16 0.4 63240 8072 4604 D php
21064 u12732 16 0 3 0:00.30 0.5 109m 9628 4652 D php
18761 nobody 16 0 3 0:00.36 0.1 38808 2124 1632 S httpd
21068 u12072 18 0 3 0:00.31 0.8 72212 16m 4616 R php
21093 nobody 16 0 3 0:00.12 0.1 38612 1940 1444 S httpd
In our configuration, httpd runs as user nobody to deliver static
content. We have SSL and non-SSL hosts (mostly). As soon as perl or php
scripts are started, a cgiwrapper is being used, so the processes do
have a different user id and another command name (php in this case).
So I'm really wondering, why there is a httpd process which uses 65% of
the memory. As you can see in the load average line, the process is
getting even greater. This occurs every now and then. And there are
following effects of this:
- swapd is used to get more memory which slows down the system
- sometimes the httpd-process us killed automatically (or at least
disappears at some point and the system goes back to usual load, or:
- httpd-process is consistently consuming more and more memory, even
swapd can't help, the whole system crashes.
Within our cgiwrapper, we have memory limits, But since this all is
happens within apache, we cannot set any limits.
We are currently using httpd-2.2.4. Hoe comes, that httpd processes can
get that hugh?
Regards
Marten
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