it could be a bunch of different reasons, ranging
from software to hardware/OS errors....
how much total memory is in the machine??
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Stadtlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: [PHP] apache and php ate up all my memory :-[
>
> Hi all
>
> Probably some Apache/mysql/php-Admin gurus can give me a hint :
> i just moved a website to it's own server ( my first one).
> now apache had eaten up all physical and virtual memory
> some httpd had allocated 45MB of RAM, memory ran out myqsl crashed...
>
> php is compiled in to apache
> Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1
> these are the relevant entries is my httpd.conf
> Timeout 300
> KeepAlive On
> MaxKeepAliveRequests 500
> KeepAliveTimeout 15
> MinSpareServers 5
> MaxSpareServers 20
> StartServers 20
> MaxClients 150
> MaxRequestsPerChild 500
>
> in the php.ini
>
> memory_limit = 8M
> ( but i think that has nothing to do with it)
>
> i can't find anything in the logfiles exept that some httpd were already
> killed by itself, because
> there was no memory left that they could eat....
> needless to say that my site does NOT get that much traffic that the
> server was at the edge
> of it's capacity.....
> HELP...
>
> Sebastian
>
