Hmm I am unsure as my server crashed on me this morning and restarted it self so every thing is back to normal (15meg per process)
But I can never remeber noticing a much smaller Apache process. So I would gues at yes the parent process gets larger too. I though it was mod_ssl causing the problem but I have commented that out from http.conf but that made no difference Cheers John Wards > Is the apache parent process ( the one running under root) getting > larger too? > > John Wards wrote: > > >After being told off on the dev list I have posted this on this list (I > >thought it was techie enough to go on that list but I was wrong....) > > > >I am running a large PHP/MySQL/Apache driven website and I am finding that > >the apache Processes get larger and larger as the days go on. When I > >stop/start apache the processes are around 16-17 meg each and after a week > >they are about 40meg each and if we then get a large in flux of traffic say > >a Monday lunch time the server just pages out and dies... > > > >I have been on the apache list given them all my modules that I have running > >and they pointed the finger at PHP, I was told to change maxrequestsperchild > >to 100 but this made no difference. Is there a fix for this? or a planned > >fix for this? > > > >Oh and here are the modules I am using: > > > >We are running Apache/1.3.26, PHP/4.2.2 mod_ssl/2.8.9 under FreeBSD 4.6. > >Apache modules: > > > >mod_php4, mod_ssl, mod_setenvif, mod_so, mod_auth, mod_access, mod_alias, > >mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, > >mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, mod_mime, > >mod_log_config, mod_env, http_core > > > >all compiled in except for mod_php4 and mod_ssl which are loaded using > >LoadModule. > > > >Cheers > >John Wards > >SportNetwork.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
