> Hey there > > It strikes me that your problem is directly related to memory usage. > Linux machines have a bad problem in that if your apache children get > swapped out ->for any reason at all<-, they will lose any shared memory > that they may have had before being swapped out. When they are swapped > back in, they take up more RAM than before, so the system swaps out > another Apache process, and so on, until the system enters the > "downward spiral of death".
Thanks for the heads up on this -- I've been seeing this happen with the process size & didn't know what to attribute it to. I implemented Apache::SizeLimit a couple months ago when we added a WebGUI site - processes were growing extravagantly. Still haven't found the ideal setting, but getting closer, I think. Sys
