From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 5 11:38:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from seven.Alameda.net (seven.Alameda.net [64.81.63.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F13437B404 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by seven.Alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 37DC43A202; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:38:14 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Stephen Hovey Cc: Mike , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache eating up swap Message-ID: <20020605113814.B14836@seven.alameda.net> Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <20020605112938.D55224@coloradosurf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:31:20PM -0400 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Stephen Hovey wrote: > > I believe (but am not certain) is a leak related to php. > > Just set the number of requests any one forked httpd will handle before > dieing off to a low value like 5 or 10. Plus you might want to consider upgrading both Apache and PHP. Apache is at 1.3.24, PHP is at 4.2.1. > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mike wrote: > > > > > Hope this isn't too OT, not sure if it's specific to > > FreeBSD or not (I found both suggestions in searches). > > > > I'm running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_ssl/2.8.5 > > OpenSSL/0.9.6b on FreeBSD 3.5S. > > > > > > My webserver appears to use more and more swap as time goes > > by. I've watched this via top and swapinfo. Graceful restarts > > take care of things (frees up my swap). If no restart is > > issued, apache will continue to eat up all swap and all other > > processes have no memory to work with (choke --> die). I've > > been lucky enough to spot it and restart before a full server > > crash (I've heard this will happen). I find nothing in the > > logs. I moved one of our 'heavy users' to another box and the > > problem all but disappeared. I have a program running now that > > monitors my swap and restarts apache, but clearly, that is not > > the best solution. The site I moved did have some good sized > > http file downloads (if that helps any other diagnostician). > > > > Sure does act like a memory leak. > > > > > > Grateful for any clues. > > > > > > TIA, > > > > mike > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message