Apache 2.0.46 Memory & Load

Hi,

I have a website serving videos (some 10MB or more) running on apache
2.0.46 and I have a lot of problems with apache.

It stars consuming swap memory and makes the system load go over 100
so I have to reboot the server oftenly.

The server in question is based on Plesk6 running on Redhat9, and I
haven't loaded any aditional modules.

These are my apache defaults, compiled as prefork:

StartServers 4
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000

> I have a website serving videos (some 10MB or more) running on apache
> 2.0.46 and I have a lot of problems with apache.
>
> It stars consuming swap memory and makes the system load go over 100
> so I have to reboot the server oftenly.
>
> The server in question is based on Plesk6 running on Redhat9, and I
> haven't loaded any aditional modules.

Daniel,

I had a similar problem with this version of Apache (2.0.46), but did
not test with later versions.
I did not find any solution at that time and revert to Apache 1.3.
Note that 2 bugs related to this issue are referenced on Bugzilla :
11427 (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11427) and
(more recent) 23567
(http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23567).
You may append informations to these pages, and possibly provide a test
case to help the Apache team reproduce and correct the bug if any.

Hope that helps,
Chris.

In article <e8d80bfc.0312170612.5ebaa40b@posting.google.com >, one of infinite monkeys
at the keyboard of daniel_avila@yahoo.com (Daniel Avila) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a website serving videos (some 10MB or more) running on apache
> 2.0.46 and I have a lot of problems with apache.
>
> It stars consuming swap memory and makes the system load go over 100
> so I have to reboot the server oftenly.

What does that look like in "top" as it's happening?
Does anything appear in the error log?
Have you tried with mod_diagnostics to see if your entire video is
getting buffered somewhere?

> The server in question is based on Plesk6

Never heard of it.

> running on Redhat9, and I

But presumably is not redhat's bundled apache?

> These are my apache defaults, compiled as prefork:

Did you compile from clean Apache source, or is "plesk6" something
with a bundled apache binary or source?

--
Nick Kew

I've tweaked httpd.conf with this module limitipconn_module that I
found on google to keep 2 max connection for the videos (since people
used to use download manager, and yes, I have a pretty .htaccess but
there are too many tricks to step it out).

Also I've changed the apache parameters to:

StartServers 4
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
MaxClients 200
MaxRequestsPerChild 500
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
MaxMemFree 100

The server is fine for a few hours with load within 1 or less, and it
respond fast. I think this is a serius bug in apache 2.0 that should
be fixed.


"Christophe LEITIENNE" <c.leitienne@remove.this.and.invalid.bgpartners.fr .invalid> wrote in message news:<brpr99$uc4$1@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>...
> > I have a website serving videos (some 10MB or more) running on apache
> > 2.0.46 and I have a lot of problems with apache.
> >
> > It stars consuming swap memory and makes the system load go over 100
> > so I have to reboot the server oftenly.
> >
> > The server in question is based on Plesk6 running on Redhat9, and I
> > haven't loaded any aditional modules.
>
> Daniel,
>
> I had a similar problem with this version of Apache (2.0.46), but did
> not test with later versions.
> I did not find any solution at that time and revert to Apache 1.3.
> Note that 2 bugs related to this issue are referenced on Bugzilla :
> 11427 (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11427) and
> (more recent) 23567
> (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23567).
> You may append informations to these pages, and possibly provide a test
> case to help the Apache team reproduce and correct the bug if any.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Chris.