Re: Tracking down leaking applications

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2006-04-09 at 11:42 -0400, Rahul Karnik wrote:
> The process killed has been either httpd or cronolog so far. For now,
> I have upgraded to FC4's 2.6.16-1_1069 and added some swap, where
> previously there was none.

Under load apache can want a lot of memory as you have a lot of server
processes compared to say thttpd or boa.

> Is there a way to:
> - confirm that it is a userspace and not a kernel issue?
> - track down the application that is leaking memory?

Apache allows you to control the memory usage of CGIs and also the
number of servers etc. That may be a good starting point for tuning. See
the apache docs and apacheweek

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