On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:22:50AM -0800, Nathan Seven wrote:

> If I've only got 50mb of static content that it's serving up, and
> then pushing some db stuff through the back, what on earth would
> possibly make the process use 2gb+?

Nothing.  I think Dossy was being facetious.  Most people using
AOLserver are using it for generating dynamic content, and in that
scenario AOLserver using 30 to 150 mb or so of RAM is utterly normal
and nothing to worry about.  You can do things to reduce the memory
footprint if you want, but unless it's over a few hundred MB most
people don't care, as massive amounts of RAM are so cheap these days.

The truly heinous memory leaks in some versions of Oracle's 9i client
libraries are the only things I've heard of that, in practice, have
ever made AOLserver suck up 1.5+ GB of memory.  One user recently
reported his AOLserver going up to 1.6 GB for exactly that reason (bad
Oracle libraries) before finally crashing due to resource exhaustion
on his Linux box.

I've never heard of anyone seeing 2 GB or more, although no doubt
there are unusual purposes and configurations that could legitimately
use that much RAM.

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