Thanks guys. I assumed worker would save me memory because threads are light(er)weight. I'm busy trying prefork now and my load avg seems to have dropped slightly, but my memory usage seems to have gone up somewhat.
Just read your comments in the archives on copy-on-write Perrin - I had no idea it doesn't work for threads. Thanks for that! http://www.jsw4.net/info/listserv_archives/mod_perl/07-wk22/msg00022.html However, my original problem may still exist and I have more data now. I noticed the number of httpd children just went up from 150 to 152 and is holding there and I also have two messages in my error log that look like the following: (70007)The timeout specified has expired: ap_get_brigade failed during prefetch, referer: *snip* I've looked at my logs going back the last 3 days and this message appears several times over the last 3 days. It's the only message out of the ordinary. I've googled this message before and haven't found much of an explanation. Have any of you seen this before? Any idea what causes it? I've confirmed it appears whether I'm running as worker or prefork. Thanks again for your help so far! Mark. On 10/16/07, Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/07, Clinton Gormley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless you have a really good reason to use worker, on linux, the > > recommended MPM is worker. > > I'm sure you meant to say prefork there. And I agree, if you're > concerned about memory, don't use threads. Prefork will save you > memory because of copy-on-write. > > - Perrin > -- Mark Maunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://markmaunder.com/ +1-206-6978723
