Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources

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From: sofadmin
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
Date: 00:46 on 16 Jan 2005


> Hey there
>
> It strikes me that your problem is directly related to memory usage.
> Linux machines have a bad problem in that if your apache children get
> swapped out ->for any reason at all<-, they will lose any shared memory
> that they may have had before being swapped out.  When they are swapped
> back in, they take up more RAM than before, so the system swaps out
> another Apache process, and so on, until the system enters the
> "downward spiral of death".

Thanks for the heads up on this -- I've been seeing this happen with the
process size & didn't know what to attribute it to. I implemented
Apache::SizeLimit a couple months ago when we added a WebGUI site -
processes were growing extravagantly. Still haven't found the ideal
setting, but getting closer, I think.

Sys

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Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
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