Bug#707770: sosospider+gitweb caused apache memory use to balloon and not go back down

2013-05-11 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Saturday 11 May 2013, Joey Hess wrote: > I don't understand why apache is using all that memory. Could it be > trying to buffer the cgi's output? If apache mallocs a lot of > memory for such a buffer, will it ever free it? Perhaps sosospider > is doing additional evil things beyond ignoring robo

Bug#707770: sosospider+gitweb caused apache memory use to balloon and not go back down

2013-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.22-13 Severity: normal See attached graph.png. The 1+ gb memory plateau is due to apache, which should normally be using more like 10 mb. I noticed this, and restarted it. A few hours later it happened again. At that point, I was using mpm-worker; I switched