Apache using 700+ Mb Memory

[Stevez]

Hi,

I have a Dual xeon 2.4 (Hyerthreading so thats 4 virtual)

1gig ECC Ram.

Running latest firmware of Cpanel/WHM

last pid: 67597; load averages: 0.13, 0.22, 0.24 up 4+11:54:14 13:25:44
115 processes: 2 running, 112 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.8% idle
Mem: 679M Active, 79M Inact, 194M Wired, 40M Cache, 112M Buf, 9524K Free
Swap: 1536M Total, 620M Used, 916M Free, 40% Inuse


I only host about 10-15 sites that arent very big in size..

I found apache was using that much memory by using

ps auxf | grep http | cut -c 31-37

then i added all the numbers up in a php script i quickly made (RRS is the memory usage right?)

I added it up to 700MB+ ..

apache config =

#-
#Rlimit added by apachelimits.pl
#-
RLimitMEM 0
RLimitCPU 240
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 32
MaxSpareServers 64
StartServers 5
MaxClients 400
MaxRequestsPerChild 0


any ideas?

[Stevez]

Reason im worried is its started to use SWAP space.. alot of it.. like 200MB worth..

this is a new server that i got 2 weeks ago, testing it atm b4 i make it go live with real hostinf clients.

[Stevez]

most of them dont get many.. one site gets alot but the thing is


i had all the same sites running on another box 512MB ram amd xp 1900..

it had like 100-150Mb free on that server..

thats why im confusessed.

[Stevez]

Tried that..

[Stevez]

im gonna do more testing to find out what it is myself.. just thought id ask here before i start

[bigpy2003]

You may or may have not found the problem. I find my memory usage peeks when I have tons of connections. Try running:
netstat -na

and see how many connections you have...if you have alot...then more than likely that is your issue..

[Dardan]

I'm having exactly the same problem that you had with apache using all your memory and start swapping.
Please help me because i'm lost here and don't know what to do.
Did you solve this? What whas the issue?
Thanks so much for sharing.

[cguimont]

one thing you can do is go into whm and go into Modify Apache Memory Usage
It will put a peak of what apache can take for memory.

Have you looked if you aren't having a kind of DOS attack to your apache?

[Stevez]

Apache Limiter by J. Nick Koston
Checking for BSD Accounting ....
Calculating Memory Limit .......0..
..0..
Largest Webserver child cgi/ssi/php is now limited to 0 meg



isent that bad..?