[thelist] Apache burns memory up !

[Eric Cestari]

Thanks Daniel !

It is a Pentium III w/256 Mb of ram.
Traffic is not very big, we had 700 visits yesterday, and it was an all time
record :)
but usually we get 200 visits a day.
The install is the standard 1.3.9  RH rpm for Apache, I think it's DSO all
the way.
PHP is 4.0.4pl1 with a whole bunch of modules (imap, gd, Postgres, ... )
I have persistent connections between PHP and Postgres (7.0.3), and that did
cause problems (corrected now).

excerpt from httpd.conf :
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 20
MaxSpareServers 30
StartServers 25
MaxClients 60
MaxRequestsPerChild 100

Those figures are  not adequate for 20Mb processes on a 256 Mb RAM server, I
guess :)

Cheers,
    Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at starkmedia.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Apache burns memory up !


> Hey Eric -
>
> That is pretty huge.. Can you give some more details? How much memory do
> you currenlty have? How much traffic are you getting? How many(and what)
> modules do you have installed? Are they DSO modules(dynamicly loaded) or
> static modules(compiled in to httpd)? What do you have
> MaxRequestsPerChild, MaxClients, Min/MaxSpareServers set to in your
> httpd.conf file?
>
> Lemme know and we'll figure it out :)
>
> .djc.
>
> Eric Cestari wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > We have an Apache server w/ PHP4, and the httpd processes sometimes
reach up
> > to 20Mb  of memory _each_. This seems huge to me. We have quite a
complex
> > installation of PHP (many modules compiled), but is it the only cause ?
> > Apache has no special modules installed except from PHP.
> > I don't have any clues, and am considering adding some RAM. I don't like
> > much that solution ... doesn't solve anything.
>
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