First, I ment stab in the dark. Second I forgot to send this after typing it
before going to work.
Sorry for being repetitive.
Chad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad W. Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 6:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Httpd and httpsd eating too much memory
>
>
> I'm going to take a stab in the date, but I have never heard of
> apache using
> that much memory on so few servers, but then again I have never run the
> secure server either. If you run top and find that apache is
> indeed causing
> the memory problems you need to change a few of the configuration
> directives. The primary apache server, I believe the process runs as root,
> does not answer requests, but spawns children to handle the load. In the
> httpd.conf file there are options like, max clients, max spare
> servers, min
> spare servers, and I believe start servers. Start servers is the number of
> servers spawned when apache is restarted and min servers is the minimum
> number of servers that will be running at any given time. If your
> server is
> low load this won't make much difference, but if you have a site that gets
> hit very often the server may or may not have child processes ready to
> respond quickly and you may need to look into the option of more memory.
>
> Also, this maybe a stupid newbie question. I have never been warned about
> low memory and I also have 64MB of Memory. How does linux do
> this: email to
> root, console error messages, and/or syslog entries? What is full, your
> entire swap space and the RAM or just RAM?
>
> Hope this helps and thanks,
> Chad
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevsurf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:21 PM
> > To: Red Hat List
> > Subject: Httpd and httpsd eating too much memory
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I have killed all on both httpd and httpsd and the second I restart them
> > they are multiplied in a few seconds.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > I know I need more RAM, but this has just started. Up until now,
> > there have
> > been no problems.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
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