On Monday 06 November 2006 19:03, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > i've found the reports of shared/unshared memory to be completely > useless
mmm, OK. > the only way i've been able to bench memory usage is to run TOP in a > terminal, and then kill/start apaches with new min_children > settings, to find out the cost of the base memory , + each child. Exactly what numbers are you then reading out of top then? > then make 100-500 requests on each child to test the process growth. OK. > which version of apache are you using? My test system is just upgraded to Ubuntu edgy, while our production servers are Debian Sarge. This translates to 2.0.55 and 2.0.54, respectively. Both systems run mp 2.0.2. > are you using threads? My test system uses mainly defaults, the production servers use preform MPM, which I guess means no. > on my app, which i've extensively profiles, i've got about 110MB of > shared memory, and each child consumes 10-20 mb of unshared memory Wow, that's very nice. -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Information Systems Developer Opera Software ASA