May be a false alarm, I think I traced this to a 3.2GB log file that I was using that was logging everything at 'warning' and above. Of course, that begs the question "why did I have 3.2GB worth of warnings", but once I disabled this logging and went back to syslog-style logging, the system became MUCH snappier and mem usage is down.
Fran Fabrizio wrote: > Within the last week, the httpd processes on the RT server have started > consuming much more memory than usual. On a fresh restart, after I hit > the Home page once, my httpd processes are up to 110-130m of memory per > process. This is a lot more than usual, and is causing our server > (which has been running happily as a 512MB VM for years) to really > thrash its swap. Could this be the result of a bad ticket (poorly > behaving attachment or something?) MySQL database issue? How best to > hunt the cause? I've been tuning down the various httpd.conf parameters > for number of children, lifespan of children, etc... but as I said, the > problem manifests on the very first hit after a restart, so I don't > think that's it. Thoughts? > > -- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653 _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [email protected] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
