Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-12 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Sat 12 Jan 2008, Graham Frank wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but should RLimitMem help prevent the RSS value from going insane?  I disabled my Perl script on one of the web servers today, and after 11 hours each process got up to a RSS of 550MB each.

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-12 Thread Graham Frank
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:59 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Cc: Graham Frank Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes On Sat 12 Jan 2008, Graham Frank wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but should RLimitMem help prevent the RSS value from going insane

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-11 Thread Krist van Besien
On Jan 11, 2008 3:23 AM, Graham Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, If it were a memory leak, as it appears to be, why do the new processes immediately go to the high RSS values? Let me guess: Some of the memory include in the RSS value is actually memory that is shared by all processes.

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-11 Thread Graham Frank
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes On Jan 10, 2008 9:23 PM, Graham Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, If it were a memory leak, as it appears to be, why do the new processes immediately go to the high RSS values? Does the rss of the parent process increase as well

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-11 Thread Eric Covener
On Jan 10, 2008 9:23 PM, Graham Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, If it were a memory leak, as it appears to be, why do the new processes immediately go to the high RSS values? Does the rss of the parent process increase as well? That would explain the high rss in new children. -- Eric

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-11 Thread Graham Frank
of the Better Business Bureau -Original Message- From: Graham Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 7:18 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes Hi, It looks like that's the case, yes. Graham Frank Neoservers

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-10 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:36:19PM -0600, Graham Frank wrote: Can anyone offer up an explanation for this? Thanks. Everything you describe is incredibly normal behaviour associated with a memory leak :-) You can also set a maximum number of requests per child to alleviate the problem. Of

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-10 Thread Graham Frank
-Original Message- From: Colm MacCarthaigh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:10 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:36:19PM -0600, Graham Frank wrote: Can anyone offer up an explanation

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-10 Thread Graham Frank
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes Hey, We actually have the MaxRequestsPerChild set to 1000 and KeepAlive off. Know of any way that we could find the leak considering the vastness of all the possibilities? Thanks. Graham Frank Neoservers LLC - Founder and Owner Ph

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSS of Apache Processes

2008-01-10 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:18:54PM -0600, Graham Frank wrote: We actually have the MaxRequestsPerChild set to 1000 and KeepAlive off. That means the leak is more than 100KB per request on average, although it could be one very bad leak :/ Know of any way that we could find the leak considering