Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:31:19 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Linda Messerschmidt <linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com> Cc: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing size of apache instances Message-ID: <6201873e0909111131s509b639fu7d6412169cb0a3b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <237c27100909111105m4ab6fa37v1fa9019d2cd94d2@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AA9BCF0.6040003@identry.com> <h8dek8$tsa$1@ger.gmane.org> <4AAA577A.8070103@identry.com> <h8dq3n$4pi$1@ger.gmane.org> <4AAA8D60.4000300@identry.com> <237c27100909111105m4ab6fa37v1fa9019d2cd94d2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Linda Messerschmidt < linda.messerschmidt@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:48 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> > wrote: > > As a sanity check... I've been studying these processes all morning. When > I > > use 'top', the column RES shows the amount of RAM used for the process, > > correct? This is the value I'd like to get down. > > How many Apache processes are involved, total? Because I'm really not > sure how much success you're going to have with this. You're at 22mb > already (by comparison mine are 44mb *without* mod_php). How much > improvement are you looking for? A couple of megs? > > Unless there are tens of thousands of processes, buying a couple of > gigs of RAM is probably the most time and cost effective solution. > > Also keep in mind that a lot of the RES is the configuration, which > isn't going to change at all when you disable modules. (Unless you > change it.) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Not to mention the RES column is a horribly inaccurate method of calculating mem usage by application. They don't run 18 MB each that is shared mem. -- Adam Vande More
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