[CentOS] respawning apache on centos

Thu Mar 17 21:55:53 UTC 2011
Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>

On Thursday, March 17, 2011 01:09:48 pm m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Dave Stevens wrote:
> > Periodically my ssh access and http access slow dramatically and I get
> > out of memory when trying to do rudimentary stuff like ls. I've been
> > advised by
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > is fine. It takes several minutes before the site is really usable. I now
> > have 22 apache instances out of 66 total processes, which seems
> > excessive.
> > 
> > One site hosted, running drupal 7, 1.5G RAM lots of disk spece, two
> > cores, Xeon based host. I don't know if this is an apache issue or
> > CentOS related or what.
> > 
> > Ideas? Debugging I can do?
> 
> For one thing, I'd strongly urge you to add at least another .5G RAM, if
> not 2.5G. Second, look at the apache configuration, and see how many
> workers it can use - you might want to lower the limit.

ok, I'll look at that

> 
> Also, what's your connection to the 'Net like,my measured download to the 
server is 40 mbps

> and how heavily is your
> website being hit?

almost not at all, not in production



> 
> > When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and
> > carrying a cross.
> > 
> > - Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here, 1935
> 
> It's happened here.
> 
>           mark
> 
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