Re: Incredible amount of memory allocated by Apache?

Tom Evans <tevans.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:32:35 +0000

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Tony Mobily <merc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The real question then is: how come another server running Symfony gives me:
>
> ÂPID USER Â Â ÂPR ÂNI ÂVIRT ÂRES ÂSHR S %CPU %MEM Â ÂTIME+ ÂCOMMAND
> 20010 apache Â Â16 Â 0 69008 Â33m Â25m S Â1.8 Â0.9 Â 0:18.35 httpd
> 20161 apache Â Â16 Â 0 70552 Â34m Â24m S Â0.0 Â1.0 Â 0:12.20 httpd
> 27109 apache Â Â15 Â 0 67868 Â30m Â23m S Â0.0 Â0.9 Â 0:04.61 httpd
> 25365 apache Â Â15 Â 0 67192 Â30m Â23m S Â0.0 Â0.8 Â 0:06.80 httpd
> 25924 apache Â Â15 Â 0 67432 Â30m Â23m S Â0.0 Â0.8 Â 0:04.73 httpd
> 25931 apache Â Â15 Â 0 68248 Â30m Â23m S Â0.0 Â0.9 Â 0:05.13 httpd
> 27112 apache Â Â15 Â 0 70808 Â33m Â23m S Â0.0 Â0.9 Â 0:02.88 httpd
> 27034 apache Â Â15 Â 0 68528 Â30m Â23m S Â1.3 Â0.9 Â 0:02.94 httpd
> 25402 apache Â Â15 Â 0 70560 Â32m Â23m S Â0.0 Â0.9 Â 0:07.16 httpd
> 27102 apache Â Â15 Â 0 66920 Â28m Â22m S Â0.0 Â0.8 Â 0:03.98 httpd
>
> ...?
> Is it _really_ possible? Seriously, the Symgony one is only around
> 30Mb, and the Drupal one is *ten* times bigger?

Yes

> So my real question is: what is this information? REs is Â" Resident
> size (kb): ÂThe non-swapped physical memory a task has used. RES =
> CODE + DATA." Surely, Drupal is not 2.9Gb of code?

Probably not, it probably is leaking memory from somewhere. If you
disassociate PHP from Apache, you'll see this much more clearly.

Cheers

Tom

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