Re: Apparent memory leak

My fear with logging the complete data input is that it will make the
problem worse for my customers because this problem is only happening on
heavily loaded servers. I can't reproduce it locally.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Perrin Harkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> The key is usually finding out what the request was that caused it. You
> can add the pid to your access logging, or write a more complete mod_perl
> handler to log the complete data input along with the pid. Then you just go
> back and look at what it was after you see which process was killed.
>
> - Perrin
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:00 AM, John Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The system load reported by the uptime command, on one of my servers,
>> periodically spikes to 20-30 and then, shortly thereafter, I see this in
>> dmesg:
>>
>> [2887460.393402] Out of memory: Kill process 12533 (/usr/sbin/apach)
>> score 25 or sacrifice child
>> [2887460.394880] Killed process 12533 (/usr/sbin/apach)
>> total-vm:476432kB, anon-rss:204480kB, file-rss:0kB
>>
>> Several gigs of memory then becomes available and the system load quickly
>> returns to normal. I'm pretty sure it's a mod perl process that's doing
>> this but I'm not entirely sure how to track down the problem.
>>
>> How would you guys approach this problem?
>>
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