Hi, I'm part of a sysadmin team who operate a non-profit and self-managed small shared hosting organization. We recently upgraded one of our web front-end from apache 1.33 to apache2, and noticed a big increase in the amount of memory each apache process uses, whereas the overall configuration is very similar. The RES memory used by each process was about 25Mb with apache 1, it is now about 120Mb with apache2. After investigation, it seems that the principal cause of this memory usage is a huge list of per-directory configuration directives. To say it fast, each hosted user has got his files in one directory, and we define a <Directory> configuration to set up an open_basedir php restriction, something like : <Directory /dns/a/account> php_admin_value open_basedir /html/a/account/:/usr/share/php/:/tmp/:/tmp/ </Directory> But we have about 7500 of such directives. When these settings are temporarily disabled, the apache2 process memory usage fall from 120Mb to about 12Mb... Do you have any idea of why apache2 consumes much more memory than apache 1 in this case, and of course of any workaround for this ? Thanks a lot in advance, Sincerely, Julien --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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