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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:40:01 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        David Banning <david+dated+1118931663.a557d5@skytracker.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: httpd and memory usage
Message-ID:  <42AB3001.1000004@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050611142103.GA77709@skytracker.ca>
References:  <20050611142103.GA77709@skytracker.ca>

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David Banning wrote:
> I seem to have a lot of memory being eaten by httpd (part output of top);
> 
> 62310 nobody          18   0 26792K 21516K lockf    0:04  0.00%  0.00% httpd
[ ... ]
> I have changed the timeout in httpd.conf from 300 to 100 which does not
> seem to help.

It wouldn't.  Apache is normally run in a prefork mode, which means it keeps 
lots of children (default is 5, plus the master) running all of the time.

> Any ideas to have httpd timeout sooner to preserve memory?

If you want to reduce the memory usage, avoid using mod_perl or PHP.  httpd 
ought to shrink down to ~5MB or so per process.

-- 
-Chuck




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