Yeah, I read that part. But, I could always hope that the documentation was wrong. Haha. This is just mind-numbingly annoying. ---- Graham Frank Neoservers LLC ? Founder and Owner Ph: (608) 359-1593 Member of the Better Business Bureau -----Original Message----- From: Torsten Foertsch [mailto:torsten.foertsch@xxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:59 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Graham Frank Subject: Re: RSS of Apache Processes On Sat 12 Jan 2008, Graham Frank wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but should RLimitMem help prevent the RSS value > > >from going insane? I disabled my Perl script on one of the web servers > > today, and after 11 hours each process got up to a RSS of 550MB each. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#rlimitmem says: "This applies to processes forked off from Apache children servicing requests, not the Apache children themselves. This includes CGI scripts and SSI exec commands, but not any processes forked off from the Apache parent such as piped logs." Does that help? Torsten -- A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. Q: What's wrong with top-posting? A: Top-posting. Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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