have a look at the Apache::Status in the cvs tree, there are hooks into
B::TerseSize which is used to measure Perl memory usage.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jason Terry wrote:
> Is there a way I can tell where my memory usage is going in an Apache child?
>
> I have a server that starts with acceptable numbers, but after a while it
> turns into this
>
> Server Version: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 PHP/3.0.12 mod_ssl/2.4.4
> OpenSSL/0.9.4
> Redhat Linux: 2.2.13
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 9666 nobody -1 -1 38900 37M 6768 1 S < 0.0 7.5
> 6:57 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> 9665 nobody -1 -1 35728 34M 6240 1 S < 0.0 6.9
> 5:57 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> 9663 nobody -1 -1 35312 34M 6412 1 S < 0.0 6.8
> 6:11 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
>
> Now I examined these children using /server-status and they had all recieved
> more than 7000 accesses for each child.
>
> Is there a way I can find out where all this RAM is being used. Or does
> anyone have any suggestions (besides limiting the MaxRequestsPerChild)
>