On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:58 +0100, Adrian Marsh 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 > > Also, I forgot to mention its 1.5.5 of SVN (1.5.2 had a mod_ bugfix for a memory leak). > > What interests me at the moment is diagnosing which module it is (as others running 1.5.5 don't report this issue). It's a fairly vanilla httpd setup other than the svn config. > > Adrian > Doesnt look that bad. That 27[789]m reported as SIZE is shared between the processes, shared pages and the like, and the RES isn't excessive in my opinion. What does mod_status and mod_server_info say is going on when you notice the memory starvation? What precisely did you change with your yum update? Did that change core packages, like libc etc? Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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