just a followup: i recompiled perl from the redhat
source rpms and it seems to have fixed my memory
leaks.
thanks to everyone for their help
remi.
> Remi Fasol wrote:
> >
> > hi there.
> >
> > i'm having problems with my redhat secure server
> and
> > mod_perl combo
> > (mod_perl as a DSO). i'm new to mod_perl (and
> system
> > administration) but
> > obviously am looking forward to getting everything
> > figured out.
> >
> > i believe there is some kind of memory leak (not
> sure
> > exactly), but when
> > i start the server a typical process has the
> following
> > characteristics:
> >
> > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB
> %CPU
> > %MEM TIME COMMAND
> > 6143 nobody 2 0 10720 10M 10072 S 0
> 0.0
> > 4.1 0:00 httpsd
> >
> > but after running it for about a day (while
> hitting it
> > with 20 page
> > requests per minute (pages use Apache::ASP and
> mysql)
> > top shows:
> >
> > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB
> %CPU
> > %MEM TIME COMMAND
> > 4722 nobody 0 0 18232 14M 3148 S 0
> 0.0
> > 5.5 0:25 httpsd
> >
> > also, at this point the 'Requests per second' and
> > 'Transfer rate' (as
> > told by ApacheBench) have dropped off
> significantly.
> >
> > can someone point me in the right direction for
> > optimizing this setup?
> >
> > thanks!
> > remi
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