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Hey all. I recently swapped my apache 1.3 site (personal blog, albums, |
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etc) over to apache 2 (stable) and all seemed to go well. However |
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lately I've been having a lot of out of memory issues on the server. |
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Even when memory is still available |
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naked alan # free -m |
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total used free shared buffers cached |
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Mem: 505 475 29 0 33 219 |
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-/+ buffers/cache: 222 282 |
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Swap: 525 75 450 |
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vmstat: |
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- |
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----cpu---- |
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r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy |
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id wa |
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0 0 77020 50124 34212 206672 0 0 2 5 103 126 0 1 |
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(sorry about the wrapping) |
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I'm still getting errors like this in my site's error log: |
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[Fri Mar 31 20:07:08 2006] [error] [client 209.123.8.19] (12)Cannot |
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allocate memory: couldn't create child process: 12: mt-tb.cgi |
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[Fri Mar 31 20:07:08 2006] [error] [client 209.123.8.19] (12)Cannot |
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allocate memory: couldn't spawn child |
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process: /var/www/arcterex.net/htdocs/mt/mt-tb.cgi[Fri Mar 31 20:07:09 |
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2006] [error] [client 209.123.8.19] (12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn't |
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create child process: 12: mt-tb.cgi |
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This happens for most of the pages when I got to my movable site admin |
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pages (all cgi). |
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I'm using pretty much the stock apache2 config files on a 512mb athlon |
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xp2600 server. I've used "threads" "-threads" and "mpm-prefork" in my |
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USE flags, with pretty much the same results :( The server itself is a |
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standard samba/apache/mysql system which seemed to run mostly ok under |
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apache 1.3, so I'm really wondering what the heck is going on. When the |
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server reports the out of memory conditions I can sometimes hit the page |
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a couple of times and then it'll come up. Other times apache will run |
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with 100% cpu and slowly use up memory and swap until I have to (slowly) |
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login and kill it by hand. |
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Anyone seen anything like this or have an idea on how to fix? |
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TIA |
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Alan |
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Alan <alan@×××××.org> - http://arcterex.net |
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