>I have a question about my server. I'm running RH6.1 and Apache. I have
>recently been warned about low memory on my machine. I have 64MB's of RAM
>and 61MB is being used right now! The reason is, httpd is running 11 times
>and httpsd is running 7 times!!!
>
>I know this is not normal and am wondering what I can do to stop this from
>eating up so much memory.
Ah, but it is normal. I have 18 httpd's running at the moment. They expand
and contract, based upon the load, i.e., the number of users coming in and
viewing the site.
>I have killed all on both httpd and httpsd and the second I restart them
>they are multiplied in a few seconds.
When you killed them, you killed any pages that were being served to your
viewers, maybe. I say maybe, because they will hang around looking for
new connections. But, if the number of hits decreases, some of the children
will be killed off.
>I know I need more RAM, but this has just started. Up until now, there have
>been no problems.
>Kevin
You need more RAM. To run a server you need more than that. I'm running
192 MB and really should increase that. I'm close to using all of mine.
In the meantime, look in the Apache config file. If I remember correctly,
there are a couple of values you can set that indicates the number of
children that will be spawned. Keep in mind, that when you throttle down
the number of children, you force your incoming viewers to wait until one
of the children is free to serve.
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