Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Chandranshu .
Hello Scott, Many many thanks for your guidance. I followed the binary search among modules and was quickly able to pinpoint mod_cband ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/cband/) as the reason of why the number of shared memory segments keeps increasing. Again, many thanks to you and everyone who h

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Scott Gifford
"Chandranshu ." writes: > We changed our script that used to do a graceful restart to also > record the number of shared memory segments before and after the > restart. Plotting the number of shm segments vs. the number of times > the server was restarted gracefully was almost a straight line. H

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread André Warnier
Chandranshu . wrote: Hi André Our server is handling around 20 requests per second. Please note that this is not a single site. There are many sites that are hosted on this server. As requests to host new site keep coming in, we keep reloading the virtual host config through a graceful restart.

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Chandranshu .
Hi André Our server is handling around 20 requests per second. Please note that this is not a single site. There are many sites that are hosted on this server. As requests to host new site keep coming in, we keep reloading the virtual host config through a graceful restart. Here are my KeepAlive

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread André Warnier
Chandranshu . wrote: ... Just to help in getting an idea of your site : - how many requests is your site typically handling (per second, per minute..) ? - what is your KeepAlive setting ? and, why did you change the default for MaxRequestsPerChild ? any particular reason, or just for the sake o

[us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Chandranshu .
Hi We changed our script that used to do a graceful restart to also record the number of shared memory segments before and after the restart. Plotting the number of shm segments vs. the number of times the server was restarted gracefully was almost a straight line. Even doing a `apachectl -k rest