httpd and memory usage
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Sat Jun 11 18:40:03 GMT 2005
David Banning wrote:
> I seem to have a lot of memory being eaten by httpd (part output of top);
>
> 62310 nobody 18 0 26792K 21516K lockf 0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd
[ ... ]
> I have changed the timeout in httpd.conf from 300 to 100 which does not
> seem to help.
It wouldn't. Apache is normally run in a prefork mode, which means it keeps
lots of children (default is 5, plus the master) running all of the time.
> Any ideas to have httpd timeout sooner to preserve memory?
If you want to reduce the memory usage, avoid using mod_perl or PHP. httpd
ought to shrink down to ~5MB or so per process.
--
-Chuck
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