Re: [us...@httpd] apache over ServerLimit processes limit

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Zdravko Spoljar wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 07:29 -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > > >> >> Anything that causes child processes to exit during steady state can >> lead to extra child processes *when some requests take a relatively >> long time to finish*. > > now

Re: [us...@httpd] apache over ServerLimit processes limit

2010-02-15 Thread Zdravko Spoljar
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:00 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > Are you sure that you're using worker MPM ? > i have (in Gentoo): APACHE2_MPMS = "worker" and USE flag "threads" so yes, i'm 100% sure this is worker MPM in use. also 'ps auxm' show multiple threads per process, and number of p

Re: [us...@httpd] apache over ServerLimit processes limit

2010-02-15 Thread Zdravko Spoljar
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 07:29 -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > Anything that causes child processes to exit during steady state can > lead to extra child processes *when some requests take a relatively > long time to finish*. now, if i understand correctly "active child processes" != "child proces

Re: [us...@httpd] apache over ServerLimit processes limit

2010-02-15 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 02/15/2010 05:49 PM, Zdravko Spoljar wrote: hi all, we have busy web site and for last few weeks we have problem with apache processes eat all memory (that is problem, but not topic here). I attempt to control problem by lowering ServerLimit (documentation states that is max number of apache

Re: [us...@httpd] apache over ServerLimit processes limit

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Zdravko Spoljar wrote: > > hi all, > > we have busy web site and for last few weeks we have problem with apache > processes eat all memory (that is problem, but not topic here). > I attempt to control problem by lowering ServerLimit (documentation states > that is

[us...@httpd] apache over ServerLimit processes limit

2010-02-15 Thread Zdravko Spoljar
hi all, we have busy web site and for last few weeks we have problem with apache processes eat all memory (that is problem, but not topic here). I attempt to control problem by lowering ServerLimit (documentation states that is max number of apache processes). ServerLimit is at 75 (confirmed by