I checked the crontab for anything that looked out of place. Nothing out of the ordinary that I could see. On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 16:12, Milver S. Nisay wrote: > mmm,...met the same experience, dont know if same problem cause with your > case, but > hey,might as well check again the crontab, which might* have some typo error > or placed > a number that is not expected to be there, which has been executed at > specified interval > causing memory being eaten up to execute the process... > bottomline, out of memory brought about by careless keyboards :) hope not! > hth, > milver > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jay Berryman" <jay.berryman@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Jonathan Bartlett" <johnnyb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:33 PM > Subject: Re: Kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5524 (httpd) > > > > Here is the top output on the apache processes. > > > > 1686 root 15 0 1112 316 268 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 httpd > > 17031 apache 15 0 2472 2092 1504 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 httpd > > 17362 apache 15 0 2372 1988 1424 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 httpd > > 17363 apache 15 0 2408 2024 1444 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 httpd > > 17408 apache 15 0 2396 2000 1444 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 httpd > > 17409 apache 15 0 2352 1964 1400 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 0 httpd > > 17410 apache 15 0 2460 2076 1500 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 0 httpd > > 17411 apache 15 0 2380 1984 1432 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 1 httpd > > > > Here is the language section from httpd.conf > > > > AddLanguage da .dk > > AddLanguage nl .nl > > AddLanguage en .en > > AddLanguage et .et > > AddLanguage fr .fr > > AddLanguage de .de > > AddLanguage he .he > > AddLanguage el .el > > AddLanguage it .it > > AddLanguage ja .ja > > AddLanguage pl .po > > AddLanguage kr .kr > > AddLanguage pt .pt > > AddLanguage nn .nn > > AddLanguage no .no > > AddLanguage pt-br .pt-br > > AddLanguage ltz .ltz > > AddLanguage ca .ca > > AddLanguage es .es > > AddLanguage sv .se > > AddLanguage cz .cz > > AddLanguage ru .ru > > AddLanguage tw .tw > > AddLanguage zh-tw .tw > > AddLanguage hr .hr > > > > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:26, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > > > > How big is your average httpd process? What language modules have you > > > included? > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jay Berryman wrote: > > > > > > > There is 500MB of memory and 2GB of swap. Here is an output from top > > > > showing the other info. > > > > > > > > 15:21:53 up 14:07, 1 user, load average: 0.53, 0.35, 0.30 > > > > 117 processes: 116 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > > > CPU0 states: 0.0% user 1.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait > 98.4% > > > > idle > > > > CPU1 states: 0.0% user 0.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait > 99.4% > > > > idle > > > > Mem: 513172k av, 500900k used, 12272k free, 0k shrd, > 148244k > > > > buff > > > > 308452k actv, 32k in_d, 7824k in_c > > > > Swap: 2096252k av, 2812k used, 2093440k free > 198312k > > > > cached > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:20, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > > > > > > > > How much memory do you have? How many processes other than HTTPD > are > > > > > running and how much memory are they taking up? > > > > > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jay Berryman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Here is part of my httpd.conf file that lists what those values > are. If > > > > > > they are ste to high, what is a good number to set them to? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <IfModule prefork.c> > > > > > > > StartServers 8 > > > > > > > MinSpareServers 5 > > > > > > > MaxSpareServers 20 > > > > > > > MaxClients 150 > > > > > > > MaxRequestsPerChild 1000 > > > > > > > </IfModule> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <IfModule worker.c> > > > > > > > StartServers 2 > > > > > > > MaxClients 150 > > > > > > > MinSpareThreads 25 > > > > > > > MaxSpareThreads 75 > > > > > > > ThreadsPerChild 25 > > > > > > > MaxRequestsPerChild 0 > > > > > > > </IfModule> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <IfModule perchild.c> > > > > > > > NumServers 5 > > > > > > > StartThreads 5 > > > > > > > MinSpareThreads 5 > > > > > > > MaxSpareThreads 10 > > > > > > > MaxThreadsPerChild 20 > > > > > > > MaxRequestsPerChild 0 > > > > > > > </IfModule> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:00, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > My gues is that you have MaxClients set way too high. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jay Berryman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have been seeing the following error messages in > /var/log/messages > > > > > > > > every couple of days. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5524 (httpd) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > These type of messages continue on through the log until the > server > > > > > > > > crashes. I believe it is a memory leak in apache, but I have > no idea > > > > > > > > what is causing it. I am currently running RedHat 9.0 on > kernel > > > > > > > > 2.4.20-8smp with apache version 2.0.40. The server is > completly up to > > > > > > > > date with the latest redhat bugfixes and errata. Any help on > this issue > > > > > > > > would be greatly apreciated. 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