Hi Folks,
Suddenly today I got a call that some of our internal mysql-backed
web apps weren't functioning correctly. The culprit turned out to be
the server running out of available RAM.
Thing is, this box has a gig of ram. Up until today, I used to think
that was a lot.. But top tells me I have less than 100 megs free. It
also will sort the process list by %mem footprint. I see that spamd (at
2.3%, roughly 25megs) and httpd (at 1.0%, roughly 10megs) are the
biggest footprints, each with several child processes each chewing up
the aforementioned amounts of space.
So I figure for the short term, while I examine memory usage and cull
the number of things running on that server, I can reduce the server
child process pool for those two services. For apache, it's easy, just
a few lines in httpd.conf. But it doesn't seem to be so
straightforward to adjust how many child processes spamd keeps in its
pool. How do I change that?
Cheers,
~Brian
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Brian A. Henning
strutmasters.com
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