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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:03:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "William S. Harker" <wsh@njnet.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: INJUNS running away
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108020214.246P-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199701072332.SAA00924@essex.njnet.com>

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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, William S. Harker wrote:

> I was wondering if you fellows could point me in the right direction on
> solving this problem.
> I am running freeBSD 2.1.5 on an Intel P90 80mb ram. I am running Apache
> 1.1.1 ( binary from apache.org ). What happens is that apache will run and
> increase its resource consumption exponentially until after about 3 days it
> is using 80 - 140 % of the system resources as reported by uptime. I
> doesn't seem to watch the resource usage at all. Sendmail shuts down, so
> does Innd and eventually the system is only running apache. I have used the
> same config on other OS ( SCO, Linux ) and this does not happen. Any Ideas?

Hm, sounds like the possibly famous apache memory hole.

Install the apache package or port instead of the direct distribution.
And report to them that it has a serious memory hole.  Your error_log is
probably filled with error messages from the system malloc package
complaining about usage errors.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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