apache using like 50% memory

[Malik]

Hi.
on one of my servers, apache is apparently hogging up 50% ish of the memory. normally it hangs around 60-70% used but after i restart apache, the memory usage drops down to 30% roughly.

?

[Sinewy]

it is usually due to the number of Apache processes. in your case it seems very high.

I suggest changing KeepAlive On to KeepAlive Off in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf and restarting your apache.

[Malik]

I have made so.
Now memory comes to an end more slowly, but all the same in day of 70 %-80 % of memory is used.

Current Time: Friday, 28-Jan-2005 20:57:25 MSK
Restart Time: Friday, 28-Jan-2005 07:15:33 MSK
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 13 hours 41 minutes 52 seconds
Total accesses: 283570 - Total Traffic: 1.9 GB
CPU Usage: u2956.26 s372.24 cu120.24 cs372.78 - 7.75% CPU load
5.75 requests/sec - 39.7 kB/second - 6.9 kB/request
11 requests currently being processed, 30 idle servers

Server Load 0.57 (1 cpu)
Memory Used 75.5 %

After restart apache used memeory down to 30%.
And then again starts to rise used memory.

[Webjunkie]

I'm seeing similar things on my server. I'm curious to find out what might be causing this...