[rt-users] RT memory usage

[Ruslan Zakirov]

Lower MaxRequestsPerChild apache's directive.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Karel Vervaeke <karel at outerthought.org> wrote:
> Dear list, we are running RT on a xen virtual machine running Debian
> etch (4.0), Linux rt.outernet 2.6.18-4-xen-686 #1 SMP Thu May 10
> 03:24:35 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> the VM had 256M RAM and a default apache installation. Versions of
> apache and RT packages:
> ii apache2                2.2.3-4+etch4  Next generation, scalable,
> extendable web server
> ii  apache2-mpm-worker     2.2.3-4+etch4  High speed threaded model for
> Apache HTTPD 2.1
> ii  apache2-utils          2.2.3-4+etch4  utility programs for
> webservers
> ii  apache2.2-common       2.2.3-4+etch4  Next generation, scalable,
> extendable web server
> ii  rt3.6-apache2  3.6.4-1        Apache 2 specific files for
> request-tracker3
> ii  rt3.6-clients  3.6.4-1        Mail gateway and command-line ii
>
>
> Because of out of memory problems we:
> * increased memory to 512M
> * limited the number of apache processes to 3 (including the root-owned
> process)
> * ran apt-get upgrade libdbix-searchbuilder-perl (it went from 1.49 to
> 1.53)
>
> Now, after a reboot, 320 MB is free. After a couple of small browsing
> sessions free memory stabilizes around 130 MB. One day later it is still
> 80 MB, but I have a feeling where this is going.
>
> Are there more suggestions you can give me to make RT / apache2 eating
> all the memory?
>
> Regards,
> Karel
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Best regards, Ruslan.