On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Luis Cañas Díaz <lcanas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I've been this afternoon having a look at one of my servers and I'm > having many problems with the memory usage. > > uno:/etc/apache2# ps ax|grep apache2|awk '{ print $1 }'|xargs > pmap|grep total > total 99416K > total 128292K > total 126864K > total 128384K > .. > > Every apache process is using more than 100MB. I have another server > with a similar configuration which runs a Debian 32bits and > > dos:/home/lcanas# ps ax | grep apache2 |awk '{ print $1 }'|xargs > pmap|grep total > total 19116K > total 45772K > total 37076K > total 38808K > .. > > I've seen in a Debian 64 bits that a apache runs every process with more > than 100MB. This is a pain in the neck to obtain a big number of > processes waiting for a connection. I assume this is the worker MPM. Are ThreadsPerChild and ulimit -s the same on both systems? Have you looked at RSS instead of address space size? Does ThreadStackSize make a difference/ -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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