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

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>> My guess is the leak isn't really in apache but in php or one of the 
>> other modules.  It's really hard to track down this kind of thing.
> On my end, when the CPU spikes, I have a *ton* of perl5.8.4
> processes. It's not necessarily the CPU or memory usage per
> process, but the total number of processes. Shouldn't
> limiting the number of child processes help?

Maybe, but how high is the current limit?

> mod_perl probably would help as well.

You will lose your setuid ability with mod_perl, however.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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