From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 12:04:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C99716A407 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from lists.lc-words.com (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDAE13C4A5 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:04:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists.lc-words.com) by lists.lc-words.com with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1H8Exy-0009E4-Ep for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:05:02 +0100 Received: from 192.168.11.7 (SquirrelMail authenticated user zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org) by lists.lc-words.com with HTTP; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:05:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <61684.192.168.11.7.1169294702.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> In-Reply-To: References: <60131.192.168.11.7.1169279847.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120080417.GA4365@xor.obsecurity.org> <60303.192.168.11.7.1169280828.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120085137.GA5113@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070120085802.GA5216@xor.obsecurity.org> <60565.192.168.11.7.1169287267.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:05:02 +0100 (CET) From: "Zbigniew Szalbot" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: virtual memory management X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:04:58 -0000 hello, >> The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I >> know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I >> appreciate it! > > You might also want to stop using mod_php in apache and convert to > fastcgi setup - this way you'll get all Apache processes to use a much > more reasonable amount, like ~~5MB - 8MB and a small number of php-cgi > processes that use ~~20MB or more, saving you memory in the end. Does this mean recompiling Apache? Or is it a question of httpd.conf? From what I understand it probably involves recompilation? Thank you! -- Zbigniew Szalbot