On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Sean Conner <spc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Eric Covener once stated: >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Adrian Marsh >> <Adrian.Marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Am trying MaxMemFree 30000 (30mb? - pure guess number). >> >> Far too large, it's per-thread. Try 1MB. > > This triggered something I recently learned---what threading model are you > using under Apache? Pre-fork? Or pthreads? I ask because pthreads will > allocate stack space for each thread, and the amount used is the default > mount allocated per stack per process: > > http://boston.conman.org/2007/11/05.1 > > Rather nasty shock when I found out. The wasted stack space doesn't shows up as a high VSZ, but not RSS. -- 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