Does using the Apache::GTopLimit module have the same net effect as restarting the server itself by simply killing off the actual processes which are growing beyond the set threshold, and thereby causing new processes to be born?
Gregory At 03:27 PM 5/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 20 May 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > Apache::SizeLimit or Apache::GTopLimit is a better way to do it, since > > it results in fewer unnecessary restarts. However, it's still a good > > idea to restart periodically, because some of the shared memory seems to > > become unshared over time no matter what you do, and restarting fixes that. > >that reminds me, i wrote a c version of Apache::GTopLimit 2+ years ago (at >somepoint in the 5 months i worked at backflip.com), but never released >it. if somebody wants to maintain/release it, the package is here: >http://perl.apache.org/~dougm/mod_gtop-0.02.tar.gz
