From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 11 18:31:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9281065670 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:31:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f179.google.com (mail-yw0-f179.google.com [209.85.211.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CA18FC0C for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh9 with SMTP id 9so1877972ywh.32 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:31:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=1BQ0G9vdaRJtEo0i8ZzTegGivyBSYvmDhQaf65a3qrk=; b=Of7huugUQxQiD1ZhZr/OzBMHsKQkwXRfrDcFP7U1CJlhNAd4sq8XjcamuJzBmYM5BE d3G7U7b7ZQ80dbTzKixHKOvqMEbeKRnApNrQStBr8KzUmGQiV7d/0NJY38VlOaNko6gd sdpi03y3lrmBmcKmDlU71cdfUnayw567NabnM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mhFKzje9TLlYK+271PnK4BQB7mwI1M6wUYJvtPmiE7I23FC9knBo5k2SKvbBm+NfOu 0yEcTgx6Y6RuqoduSYyYcQSDv9CUpjB+U++O+XBRWnuXPZ3vOScOlaW/xnWsF5RNQqvc N7h4QMFNfGyM7zZTyiDsNlGy5LWbatZCLJX7M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.80.15 with SMTP id d15mr5492665ybb.28.1252693879408; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:31:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <237c27100909111105m4ab6fa37v1fa9019d2cd94d2@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AA9BCF0.6040003@identry.com> <4AAA577A.8070103@identry.com> <4AAA8D60.4000300@identry.com> <237c27100909111105m4ab6fa37v1fa9019d2cd94d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:31:19 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0909111131s509b639fu7d6412169cb0a3b@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Linda Messerschmidt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: John Almberg , Ivan Voras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reducing size of apache instances X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:31:20 -0000 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 > 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