On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:18:47 +0100, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wouter van Vliet wrote: > > `ps wfaux` tells shows me 20 procs with the "/usr/sbin/-e" command, > > hanging under root's httpd each consuming 4.4% mem (abt 30MB). And the > > same amount of postgres procs, each with 1.1% (just over 10MB). What > > whould this /usr/sbin/-e command be? > > Good question. > > Googling for it is difficult, but it did come up with > http://www.apache-httpd.com/msg/9491.html , which suggests > > This was a bug in versions of mod_perl older than 1.99_14, I believe. > > Have you tried upgrading to the latest mod_perl? > > Note that the current available mod_perl in FC2 is 1.99_12, so it may > not have this fix. > > > (hmm, drifting off from the swapping thing; you guys think I should > > take this over to the Apache or ModPerl mailinglist or would anyone > > around here know some cool techniques to find leaks in Perl code?) > > Well, I wouldn't know any such techniques. I'd ask elsewhere (but keep > an eye on this thread in case anyone jumps in). > Yeah, googling for the problem is quite hard. I've done some googling, of course .. but didn't find any results. Anyway, what you found seems like something I should be doing. Only ... awww that would mean I'd have to recompile apache, mod_perl, any modules and lose the consitency and ease that comes with yum... hmm, ... right? Or join in to the Development yum repository, .. if there is such a thing. Anybody happens to know the entries for yum.conf I'd need for that? Thanks, Wouter
