Hi there, On 16 Jun 2003, Clinton Gormley wrote:
> > I had a look at the memory usage of my apache/mod_perl 1 processes, > > and was alarmed to find that only 3Mb of 25Mb processes was being > > shared (and that's straight after startup) I see about the same on my own server when processes get bloated, but I don't let the processes live to serve large numbers of requests so eventually they're killed off and replaced with new, smaller children. Generally about 25% of the processes are big ones, the rest staying around their initial size, but that's just the way things happen on this server, and it's not especially busy - it runs about half a dozen virtual hosts. Just in case, I put in a lot more RAM than I thought I needed. Of course with a completely different set of (Perl) software and operating conditions, there's no reason why your experience should be anything like this. > When I load nothing, the size of my processes starts at 4204 (2504 Sounds a little on the high side, but not outrageous. You're putting quite a lot of stuff into your httpd, do you really need it all? > Am I being really dumb here? I don't think so. If it's a problem for your machines you might want to consider a light proxy front end + mod_perl backend. It's easy to set up. A lot depends on the amount and type of traffic that you're going to see. If everything is dynamic HTML you might not gain much, but if there's a lot of static content you might gain a lot. Every site is different - even if they're on the same machine. 73, Ged.
