[rt-users] httpd processes consuming a lot of memory

[Fran Fabrizio]

Within the last week, the httpd processes on the RT server have started 
consuming much more memory than usual.  On a fresh restart, after I hit 
the Home page once, my httpd processes are up to 110-130m of memory per 
process.  This is a lot more than usual, and is causing our server 
(which has been running happily as a 512MB VM for years) to really 
thrash its swap.  Could this be the result of a bad ticket (poorly 
behaving attachment or something?)  MySQL database issue?  How best to 
hunt the cause?  I've been tuning down the various httpd.conf parameters 
for number of children, lifespan of children, etc... but as I said, the 
problem manifests on the very first hit after a restart, so I don't 
think that's it.  Thoughts?

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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653