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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:11:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>, dg@root.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Memory usage on NFS server 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970429180718.11772k-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704300051.TAA05475@sierra.zyzzyva.com>

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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Randy Terbush wrote:

> This behavior has been observed with Apache 1.2 throughout the 
> development cycle through 1.2b10 (just released).

  Definitely not true for earlier versions.  I've got Apache 1.0.5 running
on a 2.1-stable system here for over 183 days.  It is only mildly busy
though: 70,000 access_log entries in 24 hours.  No evidence of this memory
leak here.

Tom

> > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Randy Terbush wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > For the record, I've seen the same behavior on a machine whose 
> > > primary job is webservices. This is both for 2.1.7 and 2.2.1.
> > > The swap will be freed by killing and restarting the webservers.
> > > 
> > > The machine in question has 64MB RAM and 150MB swap.
> > > 
> > > The webserver is Apache.
> > 
> >   Both inn and apache used mmap'ed memory.  When a process mmaps a shared
> > file, to what process is the memory usage associated with?
> > 
> >   It could be what you are seeing here is a mmap() leak in these
> > applications, and that mmap'ed memory is not associated with any process.
> > 
> >   Which version of apache?  Which version of inn?
> > 
> > Tom
> >   
> > 
> > > > Do the numbers that top and ps show for per process memory usage also lie?
> > > > What I see here on my news server, is that I run out of swap (256M), but
> > > > according to top and ps a rough calculation of the total of all the
> > > > processes is less than half that. Inn then typically show a usage of
> > > > ~70M according to top, but as soon as I kill and restart it the swap usage
> > > > go down to ~5M. I once even added a 128M vn swapfile and it filled that
> > > > also without inn showing a usage of more than 70M, but killing and
> > > > restarting it takes the swap usage down to ~5M.
> > > > 
> > > > John
> > > > -- 
> > > > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 
> 
> 




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