Hi Rex, Jan told all in detail i guess. I was about to start typing for you. Anyway, just an addition to that, try googling about Pre-fork and worker-MPM mode. In the second, you can limit the processes by configuring more threads for each process (threads serve requests here). But there might be an increase in CPU %.
Regards Prasanna Ram On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Jan G.B. <ro0ot.w...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/5/4 Rex C. Eastbourne <rex.eastbou...@gmail.com>: > > 2009/5/4 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>: > >> [...] > >> how much of RAM do you have on that machine? > >> > > > > 512 MB. Not a lot, I know, but I had thought it would be sufficient to > > run a website with low traffic like mine. > > > >> > >> Do you use ubuntu's apache package(s)? Don't you have too much of > useless > >> modules loaded? > >> > > > > Through apt-get I have installed Apache2 and mod_python. I don't have > > many useless modules loaded; baseline memory usage is only around 60 > > MB. > > > > Any ideas? Is it normal for there to be dozens of Apache processes like > this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rex > > > > > > > Hi Rex, > > it's quite normal: as more visitors come along, more apache processess > will be spawned. You can set up how much processes are reserved, how > many are allowed and so on. Just have a look in your server config. > > One apache process will consume as much RAM as your most complex page > will require to render. So if you serve different, static and simple > HTML files 10000 and one php script using 200MB of ram, one process > will use 200MB at least. > > You should tweak your config by calculating how many processes your > server will handle with the installed application on it. > You'll find a lot of pages describing the optimization process and the > needed config-options. Try Google or look into the apache docs! All > options and the stuff I was writing is well described there. > > Bye, Jan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
