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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tracking down leaking applications
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:30:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144924247.9989.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b29067a0604090842h3bb11a88re9c175a467763c9f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sul, 2006-04-09 at 11:42 -0400, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> The process killed has been either httpd or cronolog so far. For now,
> I have upgraded to FC4's 2.6.16-1_1069 and added some swap, where
> previously there was none.

Under load apache can want a lot of memory as you have a lot of server
processes compared to say thttpd or boa.

> Is there a way to:
> - confirm that it is a userspace and not a kernel issue?
> - track down the application that is leaking memory?

Apache allows you to control the memory usage of CGIs and also the
number of servers etc. That may be a good starting point for tuning. See
the apache docs and apacheweek


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-13 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-09 15:42 Tracking down leaking applications Rahul Karnik
2006-04-10  6:37 ` Leonid Kalev
2006-04-13 14:12   ` Rahul Karnik
2006-04-13 10:30 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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