Stas Bekman wrote:
> Bill Marrs wrote:
> 
>>> One more piece of advice: I find it easier to tune memory control 
>>> with a single parameter.  Setting up a maximum size and a minumum 
>>> shared size is not as effective as setting up a maximum *UNSHARED* 
>>> size.  After all, it's the amount of real memory being used by each 
>>> child that you care about, right?  Apache::SizeLimit has this now, 
>>> and it would be easy to add to GTopLimit (it's just $SIZE - 
>>> $SHARED).  Doing it this way helps avoid unnecessary process turnover.
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree.  For me, with my ever more bloated Perl code, I find this 
>> unshared number to be easier to keep a lid on.  I keep my apache 
>> children under 10MB each "unshared" as you say.  That number is more 
>> stable that the SIZE/SHARED numbers that GTopLimmit offers.  But, I 
>> have the GTopLimit sources, so I plan to tweak them to allow for an 
>> unshared setting.  I think I bugged Stas about this a year ago and he 
>> had a reason why I was wrong to think this way, but I never understood 
>> it.
> 
> 
> I don't remember why I was argueing against it :) But in any case,
> I'll simply add this third option, so you can control it by either
> SIZE/SHARED or UNSHARED.

it's on CPAN now.

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