Re: [gentoo-dev] Performance once again..

[Jon Portnoy]

You may want to keep an eye on apache in top and see if RSS grows 
significantly.

It sounds like the box is probably running out of RAM. Perhaps a memleak 
in Apache.

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:44:32PM +0200, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 21:13, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > Sounds more like an Apache bug then...
>
> Debian:
> jay:~# apt-cache policy apache
> apache:
>   Installed: 1.3.27-0.1
>
> Gentoo:
> *  net-www/apache
>       Latest version available: 1.3.27-r3
>       Latest version installed: 1.3.27-r3
>
> Uhm.. I don't see any difference.. How can I search for a problem here?
>
> > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:09:31PM +0200, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
> > > Hi there.
> > > I switched to Gentoo on two of my servers recently. Before that I used
> > > Debian stable with a 2.4.18-Kernel.
> > > Right now the machines are nearly useless. They should serve lots of
> > > pages, but every ~24h everything freezes without any load on the
> > > machines.. The load drops to 0.01 and nothing is delivered.
> > > Only a restart of apache resets this timeframe again.
> > > Well, after searching for a solution for about 3-4 days I'm already in
> > > the mood to wipe Gentoo, install Debian again and stay with Gentoo for
> > > Desktop only..
> > > If anyone has any suggestions I'd be glad to give them a try, but I
> > > cannot afford to have two systems down on a regular basis for more than
> > > 2-3 days..
> > >
> > > I installed 1.4, used the 2.4.20 vanilla-kernel and I installed nothing
> > > special but exim and apache/php.
> > > All of them use the most current ebuilds in the x86 portage-tree.
> > > I wonder if this is related to the problems someone pointed out with the
> > > select() performance? But it would be a vanilla-problem then?
> > >
> > > TIA for any suggestions,
> > > Ben
> >
> >



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