Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:01:27 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Tomas Randa <freebsd@max.af.czu.cz.cz> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free memory after upgrade to 7.1 Message-ID: <1233766887.43076.18.camel@strangepork.mintel.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4989BD92.9010506@max.af.czu.cz.cz> References: <4989BD92.9010506@max.af.czu.cz.cz>
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On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:08 +0100, Tomas Randa wrote: > Hello, > > I have i386/PAE system (php, apache22, mysql) running on 7-STABLE and I > can see strange behavior after upgrade from 7.0: Apache does not free > memory, for example: > > CPU: 31.2% user, 0.0% nice, 12.8% system, 0.7% interrupt, 55.3% idle > Mem: 3520M Active, 3705M Inact, 465M Wired, 314M Cache, 112M Buf, 12M Free > Swap: 4096M Total, 105M Used, 3991M Free, 2% Inuse > > then apachectl graceful > > CPU: 28.3% user, 0.0% nice, 8.6% system, 0.0% interrupt, 63.1% idle > Mem: 631M Active, 3126M Inact, 353M Wired, 213M Cache, 112M Buf, 3693M Free > Swap: 4096M Total, 1844K Used, 4094M Free > > Some graph: http://max.af.czu.cz/memoryload.png > > I know before upgrade was memory using about 2,5GB, now much more, > apache sometimes crash. > > Thanks for some help > > Tomas Randa What is apache doing to use so much memory? This looks more like a memory leak in PHP, which is reclaimed after apache restarts its children. When you upgraded the OS, did you also upgrade ports? Could a new version of PHP be at fault here? Cheers Tom
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