[thelist] Apache burns memory up !

[Patrick Berry]

>>> Eric Cestari had the thought that... <<<

> 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

That does seem a little out of control...here is a top listing of my
apache with php4:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
24979 pberry     0   0  1872 1872  1796 S       0  0.0  0.7   0:00 httpd
17899 pberry     0   0  2080 2080  1872 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
17900 pberry     0   0  2080 2080  1872 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
17901 pberry     0   0  2100 2100  1884 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
17902 pberry     0   0  2080 2080  1872 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
17903 pberry     0   0  2080 2080  1872 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
20517 pberry     0   0  2044 2044  1872 S       0  0.0  0.7   0:00 httpd
20522 pberry     0   0  2084 2084  1876 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
20523 pberry     0   0  2236 2236  1900 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
20526 pberry     0   0  2084 2084  1876 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd
20538 pberry     0   0  2084 2084  1876 S       0  0.0  0.8   0:00 httpd

How much memory is apache sharing between children?  RAM is cheap,
have you considered tossing more in ;-)

Maybe you could send a top listing.

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