[Linux-disciples] Apache/Perl running out of memory

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

You might check out this:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2003/09/msg00065.html

which was unfortunately never resolved. There seems to be some 
longstanding memory leak that only shows up in certain circumstances. 
  We haven't had any problems at all on bluesky/bostoncoop.net though.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Recently, my Apache machine has been running out of memory.
> The server grinds to a halt and I get a screen full of
> errors telling me that Perl (which I assume means one of the
> Perl CGI scripts) has run out of memory and a process had to
> be killed. I thought that moving Apache to its own
> (basically) dedicated machine, and moving the mail server to
> a server of *its* own would fix the problem, but apparently
> not.
> 
> Googling a bit brings up this bit of advice:
> http://shorl.com/dydryfrevepone
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem? My blog's gotten
> 9,000 hits or so since the log restarted on Sunday, and the
> site itself has gotten just shy of 18,000; is it really that
> my site's overloaded, or should I look elsewhere for
> problems?
> 
> (The machine it runs on is a 400 MHz P2 with 320 megs of
> RAM.)
> 


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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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