-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jaqui Greenlees wrote: > --- "Mark A. Craig" <mark.a.craig@gmail NOSPAMPPLS com> wrote: > >> I'm running Apache 2.2.4 with PHP 5 to enable my >> blog, and it's been >> very stable since I installed it in April. The only >> beef I have is its >> tendency to keep slowly sucking RAM as the days roll >> by, so I've been >> resorting to restarting it on occasion to keep the >> usage low. I don't >> know if it's a memory leak or just normal behavior >> for my situation and >> config, and I confess I haven't investigated it in >> any depth yet. > > AFAIK, this isn't that uncommon, with windows itself. > You may need to adjust the memory management settings > for windows to resolve this. I know a number of people > who have the memory hog effect slowing their windows > systems down even without having a server on the > system, so even if apache didn't have very good memory > management it could still be windows. > > The other issue is the php scripts, they might be > using keep-alive connections, which the sql server > backend could then be sucking resources causing the > slow response times. With enough resources eaten up, > no oftware will be completely stable, so whatever is > actually eating the resources is the cause of your odd > errors. > > Jaqui > i have also seen this with uploading files bigger than what apache is allowed to have. I have MemManager (it proxies mallocs) and it lets apache have 32 megs of memory. I have seen this with the mySQL connectivity in PHP - but its usually caused by NOT closing the connection to the MySQL server after you're done. Remember, be a gentleman and close all your MySQL connections when you're done! - -- Just a Thought Morgan Gangwere For those who want my PGP key: http://pengunassasin.kicks-ass.org/pgpKey.html ******* Wisdom for the day ******* * Dont rawquote - it gives * * spammers free bait! * ********************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXgBZCF9T/dUsmAgRAraXAKC89kC/AucVYbib5jb8Zpqq5Q30OwCeJP14 n6Wo1MlIKPmgLNra9UYf95Q= =55zn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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