Re: Warning about out of memory/processes

Hi,

Probably this is the wrong mailing-list, this is the community mailing-list. 
Please use one of the http server projects list. eg: dev-XeBeRKkkxMkyzMRdD/[email protected]

See: http://projects.apache.org/projects/http_server.html

Btw. do you use mod-passenger for your rails application? I think this 
performs best.

Cheers, Flavio

On Thursday, November 11, 2010 05:49:59 pm Tiago Marques wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not exactly new to Apache but there are some things that I'd like to
> ask about, which I haven't been able to google with decent results.
> 
> So, I just noticed Apache doesn't handle multiple connections very
> well(like 1000) and it uses a lot of memory with our PHP and Rails apps.
> I've limited the system to be able to handle about 2000 connections but
> since I haven't tested it exhaustively, I may have to cut on that a bit to
> ensure there's always available mem to use. The question is, how can I
> know that Apache is not serving enough connections, for instance, if it
> hits the limit I would like to be able to e-mail myself to know that it
> needs tuning or a server upgrade. Does this show up on logs or can I
> program some kind of action to do it? I can implement scripting to do this
> but need to find a way that Apache warns about this, if at all. Or am I
> limited to periodically scanning the number of processes running and
> e-mail when it hits a certain level?
> 
> Some insight on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tiago Marques