Dave Stevens wrote:
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
Greetings,
Dave Stevens geek@uniserve.com wrote:
Hi
I have a centos instance on a host where uname -a shows:
Linux cl28810.com 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2PAE #1 SMP Fri Dec 17 19:34:22 MSK 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I apologize for this late reply, have been occupied elsewhere.
Consider configuring Apache's server-status feature: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_status.html It won't specifically help with memory issues, at least not directly, but it is a good starting point when tuning Apache.
Here are specific Apache tuning tips: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/perf-tuning.html
You can place a test-load on your server and get some baseline statistics about the server's performance characteristics using Apache's benchmark utility: /usr/sbin/ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/server-status so you'll have a point of reference for where your attempts to tune it are going.
I wouldn't expect RAM to be the limiting factor for Apache, perhaps some feature in Drupal is leaking memory? What does top say about the