Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-perl-modperl-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 28230 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2006 20:06:35 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 2006 20:06:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 41757 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jan 2006 20:06:28 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-perl-modperl-archive@perl.apache.org Received: (qmail 41743 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jan 2006 20:06:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact modperl-help@perl.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list modperl@perl.apache.org Received: (qmail 41732 invoked by uid 99); 2 Jan 2006 20:06:28 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:06:28 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: 207.114.11.197 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of perrin@elem.com) Received: from [207.114.11.197] (HELO ns1.plusthree.com) (207.114.11.197) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:06:26 -0800 Received: from [10.0.1.201] ([69.10.70.170]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.plusthree.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k02K61KM011482 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:06:02 -0500 Subject: Re: Why is my apache parent process growing... From: Perrin Harkins To: Len Kranendonk Cc: mod_perl List In-Reply-To: <010901c60fd3$94612b70$9600000a@dwslan.datawire.nl> References: <010901c60fd3$94612b70$9600000a@dwslan.datawire.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:06:07 -0500 Message-Id: <1136232367.10996.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:34 +0100, Len Kranendonk wrote: > Right after starting apache (with preloading the needed perl modules) > the httpd root process is about 40MB. > After several days it has grown to over 100MB. How are you measuring this? > My understanding is that the parent process is not supposed to serve > any requests itself. That's correct. Are you using Cache::FastMmap, or anything else that does memory-mapping of files? That might yield an apparent larger size if the parent process is one of the ones that has the mmap'ed file open. - Perrin