Hi All,

I have an apache web server(v2.4) + ckan (v2.7.2) running in a docker container.
In our scenario, CKAN is being hit with large number of requests at certain 
intervals (like 10 requests/sec). Then after a certain period of time, the 
memory consumption tends to increase towards it's threshold value.

After a certain interval/time, if we access the home page of ckan at 
https://url-address/ckan with large number of request(Using Jmeter), the memory 
usage of the Apache process keeps on increasing and ultimately the process 
crashes and does not work properly.

(NOTE: ckan is mounted on /ckan root path )

As a quick remedy for this, restarting the docker container reduces the memory 
usage.

My concern is that, are there any set of conditions/parameters in CKAN or 
Apache Webserver that needs to be taken care of, to prevent this behavior? What 
is the threshold values to process these requests? Do I have to limit the no. 
of requests to Ckan below its threshold value so that it does not crashes? Or 
is there any way to limit the memory consumption of Apache web server?

Some of the values set in apache2.conf are:

1.       Timeout 300

2.       KeepAlive On

3.       MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

4.       KeepAliveTimeout 5

Also /apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_event.conf consists of the following parameters 
and values:

1.       StartServers                     2

2.       MinSpareThreads           25

3.       MaxSpareThreads          75

4.       ThreadLimit                     64

5.       ThreadsPerChild             25

6.       MaxRequestWorkers     150

7.       MaxConnectionsPerChild   0

We have logged the same issue at : https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/4939
Thanks & Regards
Arnav Garg

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