Thanks Luca, I'll give that a shot. What surprises me is how much each process was consuming; at times 250mb each. Are you saying the majority of that is for php?
At the end of the day, I'm looking for the optimal configuation for a standard Wordpress site server. Given the ubiquity of the platform you'd expect more people to have blogged about the required mods and MPM settings for this, but I've come back with little.
Do we have a "barebones Wordpress" list of mods that are required?
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:30 AM Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Tony,usually httpd consumes a very little amount of memory, if it is behaving in that way it is probably due to some module like mod_php. Can you give us a bit more info about your mpm used and the list of modules loaded? For example, the most common use case that we see is mpm-prefork and mod_php causing a ton of RAM consumed (each httpd process allocates memory for a PHP interpreter), meanwhile a solution like mpm-worker|event + mod_proxy_fcgi + php-fpm works way better.My suggestion would be to narrow down what module is really causing your memory to saturate before tuning the mpm.Luca2017-09-06 1:33 GMT+02:00 Tony DiLoreto <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Hi Luca,Basically my server runs out of free memory and freezes. On AWS I have to stop/start it again to be able to SSH in. What I'd really like is a MAX_PERCENTAGE_AVAILABLE_MEMORY directive that limits Apache to <= some % of free memory. That way it can never halt my system.Hope this helps.On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:16 PM Luca Toscano <toscano.luca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Tony,2017-08-31 23:43 GMT+02:00 Tony DiLoreto <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Hi All,I've been scouring the internet for best practices or heuristics for specifying parameter values of the MPM directives. My server seems to lock up regardless of the values I enter. Are there "rules of thumb" for each MPM type (prefork, worker, event)?Can you tell us what do you mean with "lock up"?Luca--Tony DiLoretoPresident & CEOMigliore Technologies Inc716.997.2396The best in the business...period!
