I was using ApacheBench to test my site. When it's running (-n 100 -c 10),
I see that the "Free" memory grew about 40MB. Why does this happen? It
uses less memory when serving?
Bird
Hi All -
I'm running Apache, mod_perl and HTML::Mason on Solaris 2.6, and using
Apache::Session::File for session management. I've been monitoring free
memory as reported by top, and I'm seeing some behavior that is totally
baffling me. (If you're interested, ther
> Odd thing #1: As it gets into evening time, load on the machine drops off
> and there are fewer httpd children running, but I am not seeing free
> memory return to that 1.3GB level. At most it comes back up to 400MB or
> so. I don't think the httpd children are hanging on t
Perrin Harkins wrote:
>
> > Odd thing #1: As it gets into evening time, load on the machine drops off
> > and there are fewer httpd children running, but I am not seeing free
> > memory return to that 1.3GB level. At most it comes back up to 400MB or
> > so. I don
d out of about 2,300,000 total. Almost immediately,
> > free memory on the machine jumps back up to 1.3GB. What's up with that?
>
> Sounds like you're counting the buffers and cache in your "used" memory.
> Depending on what OS you're on, you may want to l
