php (phpmyadmin?) process from user "cpanel" memory usage

[Rubas]

3 php process from the user "cpanel" eats up all memory.

The only snapshot I had show me this :

13:36:10 up 11 days, 21:47, 1 user, load average: 11.04, 15.12, 21.91
149 processes: 133 sleeping, 14 running, 1 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 8.7% user 6.7% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 84.4% idle
Mem: 1022796k av, 1014316k used, 8480k free, 0k shrd, 2284k buff
944388k actv, 35396k in_d, 1468k in_c
Swap: 1052248k av, 1052248k used, 0k free 2780k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
28385 cpanel 19 0 309M 281M 176 R 16.3 28.1 1:24 0 php
28461 cpanel 15 0 213M 143M 4 D 0.1 14.3 0:57 0 php
28647 cpanel 15 0 425M 260M 4 D 0.1 26.1 1:55 0 php

This processes overloaded the server and it ended in a tie-up of the normal daemons.

next one ..
32610 cpanel 25 0 25208 24M 1532 R 99.6 2.4 4:22 0 php

..
1348 cpanel 25 0 486M 486M 1524 R 98.0 48.6 2:06 0 php

WHM 9.1.0
cPanel 9.1.0-S93

RedHat 9
1 GB RAM
1 GB Swap

[Rubas]

http://forums.ev1servers.net/showthr...threadid=38371

[Rubas]

I limited in the php.ini the resource for a php process, so please help me a little why this process above can consume this amount of memory?

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)