On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Adrian Marsh <Adrian.Marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andre, > > Thanks for the reply. No its definitely the httpd process. I see each thread consuming hundreds of megs of RES memory being used in TOP. I just restarted it and already each is consuming: > > 10006 apache 15 0 279m 15m 3160 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.29 httpd > 10004 apache 15 0 278m 13m 3400 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 httpd > 10007 apache 15 0 278m 13m 3048 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 httpd > 10001 apache 15 0 277m 13m 3456 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.08 httpd > 10003 apache 15 0 277m 13m 2976 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.10 httpd > 10002 apache 15 0 277m 13m 3112 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 httpd > 10005 apache 15 0 277m 13m 3080 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.06 httpd > 10000 apache 15 0 277m 12m 3432 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.51 httpd Are those separate worker processes? What's unhealthy about it? You can shrink the harmless vsz with ulimit -s 512. -- 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