On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:24 +0200, Andreas Rieke wrote: > it runs well using about 300 M of 1 G physical RAM. > However, the remaining RAM decreases day by day, and after 2 or 3 > weeks, the machine crashes because swapping takes too much time. > However, all processes together take about 250 MBytes according to ps, > thus I assume that the kernel takes the rest. free tells me in fact that > much swap space is used an nearly no physical RAM is left.
I think you'd better get some monitoring on that system and find out what's really happening. Log the size of the apache processes on a regular basis (or graph them with Cacti or MRTG) and see if they are the problem or not. - Perrin
