On 9/27/07, Robinson Craig <Craig.Robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear experts, > > I've been working through a process of upgrading our SUN web servers > from PHP4 to PHP5. An interesting thing happened when I did our Internet > web server this morning. Typically, the number of HTTP processes running > during business hours is about 20 - 40. However, upon installing PHP5 > and changing the apache conf to load the new PHP5 module, increased the > number of processes to 100 - 130. Consequently consuming more memory and > swap. > > PHP pages have marginally changed, but not significantly in structure. > > Has anyone ever seen any activity like this?? It seems that it has > something to do with the new PHP5 library being loaded, as number of > processes increases pretty well straight away after restart of APACHE. > > ENV: apache 1.3 on Sparc Solaris 8. We're talking about some ancient software there. Oh well. To figure out why you have all these processes active, fire up the server-status display provided by mod_status and see what your processes are doing. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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