Memory Leak ? Re: [rt-users] System Requirements

[Jim Goss]

FWIW, I think I may be seeing this problem as well.  In the last week or so I've noticed some serious slowing down of the system.  At first, I considered the fact that I was ramping up the number of tickets in the system and was looking at bumping up my resources in the box.  However, after coming to a crawl today, I bounced apache and when it restarted my swap space dropped like 200MB.  Now, a few hours later and I notice that the used swap space is creeping back up again by about 50MB.

Granted, I haven't yet done anything scientific, but thought I'd toss in some corroboration (for what it's worth).

Thanks,

Jim Goss
Director of Network Operations
Privacy, Inc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-
> bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Russ Roff
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:44 PM
> To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Memory Leak ? Re: [rt-users] System Requirements
> 
> I've been suffering performance problems with 3.0.9 also, on a fresh
> install.  Admittedly, my box is not well stocked.  I've only got 256 MB of
> RAM.  This will have to change before I go live.  I'm using MySQL 4.0.17
> standard, Perl 5.8.3, Apache 1.3.29, mod_perl 1.29, Solaris 8 and all
> required versions of libraries to build RT3.0.9
> 
> I did some playing around and I'm confused by what I see.  It appears
> somewhere there might be a memory leak of some sort or another.
> 
> The box I'm testing on has 1 user accessing RT - me.  There are 2 queues,
> with 2 total tickets.  Nothing else runs on this box.  I bounced the box
> to
> verify I'm starting fresh.  Here are the memory numbers I see.
> 
> Start - Apache running, 6 httpd processes, all 21.9 MB.  144 MB free RAM,
> 401 MB free SWAP.
> 
> Logged into RT (just opened home page, no tickets) - 72 MB free RAM, 395
> MB
> free SWAP
> Open ticket #1, which has a 1 MB attachment and 20KB of text - 49 MB free
> RAM, 395 MB free SWAP
> Jumped to ticket #2, which has no attachments and 5KB of text - 33 MB free
> RAM, 395 MB free SWAP
> Logged out of RT/Closed Browser - 30 MB free RAM, 395 MB free SWAP.
> 
> I let the system "rest" for about 2 minutes between each of these
> activities
> so that I knew all processes had finished their work.
> 
> Bounced Apache - back to 143 MB free RAM, 399 MB free SWAP.  mysqld, by
> way,
> was pretty much stable at 36 MB with the exception of spikes during ticket
> loads.
> 
> I don't know where the memory is going, but it's beginning to bother me.
> Any ideas?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Pietri" <kpietri at nvps.net>
> To: "Jeremy Rooks" <jrooks at ocic.k12.ok.us>;
> <rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com>
> Cc: "Tony Griffin" <tgriffin at ocic.k12.ok.us>
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] System Requirements
> 
> 
> > I would personally give the ram a boost.  i was running on a 400mhz dell
> > linux box and we had same problem with 256 upgraded to 512 and its
> running
> > like a champ.
> >
> > -Karl Pietri
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeremy Rooks" <jrooks at ocic.k12.ok.us>
> > To: <rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com>
> > Cc: "Tony Griffin" <tgriffin at ocic.k12.ok.us>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:25 AM
> > Subject: [rt-users] System Requirements
> >
> >
> > We are currently running RT on a PowerPC G4 450MHz/100MHz
> FSB/256MB/30GB.
> > There are only 3 people who use this software.  When just one of us
> tries
> to
> > go to the webpage it takes up to 10 seconds for the page to load.
> Nearly
> > every page we go to takes this long.  We have a full T1 everywhere.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why we are getting these delays.  Is this normal?  If
> we
> > upgrade to a dual processor G4 Xserve, will we see an improvement?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Jeremy Rooks
> >
> > "You need not ask a man the type of computer he uses.  If its a Mac, he
> will
> > tell you.  If its not, why embarrass him?²
> >
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