[CentOS] Memory leak - how to investigate

Mon Feb 3 22:12:41 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Kwan Lowe wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:59 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> We've got a number of websites on one of our production servers, and
>> they
>> get hit moderately (it's not Amazon... but they are US gov't scientific
>> research sites), and I think we've got 25 threads running, total, to
>> server *all* of them.
>
> If you don't mind me asking, what are your fork/child settings like for
> those and what sort of workload?

For a very crude estimate, in /var/log/httpd, I did grep GET access_*log |
grep -c 03/Feb, and got 178388, and that's with 23 workers (as in, ps -ef
| grep -c httpd).

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