Re: Unbelievable : one single apache process uses more than whole server memory (5 gigabytes) !

[Denis BUCHER <dbucherml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 18.08.2012 11:05, Alex Bligh a écrit :

> > But how can I strace it ?
> strace -fp [pid]
>
> so "strace -fp 25178" in the case you gave.
>
> and see what syscalls it's making. Might give you a hint.

OK, but my problem is that when I detect an "offending" process (using too much memory), it's already too late !

The strace will only show mmaps until "[crit] Memory allocation failed" !

Do you have a suggestion on how I could "intercept" these processes before the problem happens ?

Denis