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Apache using too much memory
apache process is using allot of memory.
any suggestions how to make it use less memory?
centos
whm/cpanel
any suggestions how to make it use less memory?
centos
whm/cpanel
top - 16:48:08 up 1 day, 23:20, 1 user, load average: 0.64, 0.66, 0.62
Tasks: 1077 total, 2 running, 1075 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.0%us, 0.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 66092388k total, 20597876k used, 45494512k free, 1252612k buffers
Swap: 34097136k total, 0k used, 34097136k free, 13959548k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
73397 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2580 S 2.6 0.0 0:34.07 httpd
5948 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2580 S 1.0 0.0 0:24.98 httpd
73474 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2580 S 1.0 0.0 0:33.84 httpd
73294 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2580 S 0.7 0.0 0:32.51 httpd
73295 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2580 S 0.7 0.0 0:41.07 httpd
73296 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2552 S 0.7 0.0 0:32.65 httpd
73430 nobody 20 0 2020m 10m 2272 S 0.7 0.0 0:31.80 httpd
73646 nobody 20 0 2020m 11m 2592 S 0.7 0.0 0:37.01 httpd
74196 nobody 20 0 2020m 10m 2280 S 0.7 0.0 0:31.01 httpd
23416 nobody 20 0 2020m 10m 2232 S 0.3 0.0 0:09.55 httpd
73286 nobody 20 0 88980 2952 968 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 httpdASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
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I agree with xterm's analysis
Using top, you could press the following keys :
F
n
<enter>
to sort your processes by memory consumption. You'll quickly see who's eating 22 GB (WOW :))
Running top, press ? to see the internal commands (sort, filters and so on)
Using top, you could press the following keys :
F
n
<enter>
to sort your processes by memory consumption. You'll quickly see who's eating 22 GB (WOW :))
Running top, press ? to see the internal commands (sort, filters and so on)
ASKER
I rebuilt apache and php via the easyapache in WHM
I removed numerous non-needed modules
I ended up with this as a result
btw, I plan to add 1 or 2 more sites to this server -- which will use mysql and apache heavily
I removed numerous non-needed modules
I ended up with this as a result
btw, I plan to add 1 or 2 more sites to this server -- which will use mysql and apache heavily
top - 15:45:59 up 2 days, 22:18, 5 users, load average: 1.56, 1.51, 1.00
Tasks: 1187 total, 1 running, 1185 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.6%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.7%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 66092388k total, 23903800k used, 42188588k free, 1090928k buffers
Swap: 34097136k total, 0k used, 34097136k free, 7671436k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
34706 nobody 20 0 79732 4024 1928 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.06 httpd
36141 nobody 20 0 79732 3964 1908 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
36172 nobody 20 0 79732 3992 1928 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
36173 nobody 20 0 79732 3964 1924 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
36242 nobody 20 0 79732 3980 1928 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
36702 nobody 20 0 79732 3952 1916 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
32382 nobody 20 0 79732 4020 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 httpd
32612 nobody 20 0 79732 4036 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.28 httpd
33260 nobody 20 0 79732 4028 1936 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 httpd
33454 nobody 20 0 79732 4028 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 httpd
34731 nobody 20 0 79732 3976 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
34745 nobody 20 0 79732 3984 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
34746 nobody 20 0 79732 3980 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 httpd
34749 nobody 20 0 79732 4000 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 httpd
35080 nobody 20 0 79732 4124 2048 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 httpd
35123 nobody 20 0 79732 3964 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35131 nobody 20 0 79732 3984 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35134 nobody 20 0 79728 4004 1920 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35153 nobody 20 0 79732 3992 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35160 nobody 20 0 79732 4000 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35167 nobody 20 0 79732 3996 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35173 nobody 20 0 79732 3996 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35360 nobody 20 0 79732 3980 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35370 nobody 20 0 79732 3980 1924 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
35371 nobody 20 0 79728 3968 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35372 nobody 20 0 79732 3956 1912 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35376 nobody 20 0 79732 3984 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35377 nobody 20 0 79732 3992 1920 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35401 nobody 20 0 79732 4044 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35403 nobody 20 0 79732 4000 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35547 nobody 20 0 79732 3988 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35562 nobody 20 0 79732 3980 1912 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 httpd
35566 nobody 20 0 79732 4016 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35591 nobody 20 0 79732 4000 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35594 nobody 20 0 79732 3984 1924 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35615 nobody 20 0 79732 4028 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35687 nobody 20 0 79732 3984 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35694 nobody 20 0 79732 3976 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35806 nobody 20 0 79732 3996 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 httpd
35807 nobody 20 0 79732 3992 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
35817 nobody 20 0 79732 4020 1920 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 httpd
35827 nobody 20 0 79732 3948 1916 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 httpd
35829 nobody 20 0 79732 3980 1912 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 httpd
35831 nobody 20 0 79732 4040 1928 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35841 nobody 20 0 79732 4024 1932 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 httpd
35842 nobody 20 0 79732 3920 1896 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 httpd
I see you got a fairly nice improvement, but memory is cheap these days - we don't have to squeeze every last bit of blood out of that rock like we all used to back in the day when we were running web servers on i386 machines with like 32MB RAM :)
Good for you for streamlining it though!
Good for you for streamlining it though!
ASKER
We expect the number of apache processes to triple with the next site we bring onto this server.
Wow, time to think about a load balancer in front of a cluster of Apache servers!
ASKER
How difficult is that?
Not at all difficult...but can be expensive.
Hello.
Haproxy can be a good solution for a "cheap" load balancer.
Haproxy can be a good solution for a "cheap" load balancer.
Please let me know the following things.
1.ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | pr -TW$COLUMNS
2.free -m
3.What type of Website that you are running with? Is it using mysql?
4.Have you done apache tweaking before if yes list out the values that you have tweaked.
-Jay