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Hi, |
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the last few days since my server is hosting a new website the memory |
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usage is givving me serious headaches :( |
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The case: |
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as I said a few days ago I launched a public web-site. after to days the |
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server was like a zombie. |
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With some patience I could manage to get on the server and list what was |
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running. at that time there were a lot of perl script running |
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simultaniously and kjournald was freaking out, well so far so good, as I |
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ran amavis and spamassassin as perl script, so I installed amavis as |
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deamon (amavisd-new) spamassassin integrated, |
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So far everything is ok, amavisd and spamassassin seem to behave nicely, |
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I have less cpu load for mail tasks, but still the problem returns. |
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Looking in the everything log showed me errors like [kernel] |
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__alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0), seems pretty |
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deadly to me. Well this must be a memory leak or something |
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At that point I started to kill tasks one by one which tasks were not |
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paniced already. |
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MySQLd: this did nothing much to improve the stability |
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Postfix and courier: also no improvement |
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But on killing apache2 the server came back and the command free told |
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me that 500 mb of swap and 350 MB was free-ed. |
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I have looked around how I could strict apache in memory usage for the |
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apache user. |
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What is the best way to prevent that apache takes all memory or maybe |
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exclude a amount of memory for apache? |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Raymond den Ouden |
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