Currently, I have a Netware 6.5 SP 5 box with Apache 2.2.4 & PHP 5.2.1. The Apache and PHP packages are built by a gentleman named Guenter. The server is a Xeon class processor with 4 GB of memory. A few other services reside on the box which are DNS/DHCP server by Netware, Tomcat, and James. I do not believe these other applications play a factor into my issue, but want to be thorough. Within Apache, there are approximately 5 web sites with one receiving the bulk of the traffic. The site is primarily built with HTML, PHP, CSS, and Javascript. Now on to the issue. For quite sometime now, the Apache process loads into memory and begins consuming the remaining memory. After a period of time the Netware OS adjusts to free more memory which Apache happily consumes until it crashes the server with an out of memory error. As an example, in less than 24 hours the Apache process is 740 MB. This consumption appears to be load specific, meaning that during off-peak hours the memory consumption stops or is negligible. I have worked with the builder of the Apache and PHP packages, but he has been unable to replicate nor has he heard of any issue with similar symptoms from his install base. The Apache process runs in threaded mode, and I have attempted to cause the threads to be killed and restarted by adjusting the MaxRequestsPerChild to 1,000 from infinite. This was suggested by gentleman that assists with the Apache documentation, but unfortunately it did not make a noticeable difference. Being on a Netware box,I feel my options are somewhat limited at least to my knowledge because I need to have packages or modules built for Netware from source with some kind of special compiler software. Anyway, I would like some suggestions on debugging the issue. Is there something in Apache or for Apache that will let me see what is being held within memory or just a way to narrow down my search to a certain section(s) of a site. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks for you time. Matt Rigor Bound To Stay Bound Books --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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