Kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5524 (httpd)

Jonathan Bartlett johnnyb at eskimo.com
Tue Jun 1 20:20:02 UTC 2004


How much memory do you have?  How many processes other than HTTPD are
running and how much memory are they taking up?

Jon

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jay Berryman wrote:

> Here is part of my httpd.conf file that lists what those values are.  If
> they are ste to high, what is a good number to set them to?
>
>
>
>
> > <IfModule prefork.c>
> > StartServers       8
> > MinSpareServers    5
> > MaxSpareServers   20
> > MaxClients       150
> > MaxRequestsPerChild  1000
> > </IfModule>
>
>
>
> > <IfModule worker.c>
> > StartServers         2
> > MaxClients         150
> > MinSpareThreads     25
> > MaxSpareThreads     75
> > ThreadsPerChild     25
> > MaxRequestsPerChild  0
> > </IfModule>
>
>
>
> > <IfModule perchild.c>
> > NumServers           5
> > StartThreads         5
> > MinSpareThreads      5
> > MaxSpareThreads     10
> > MaxThreadsPerChild  20
> > MaxRequestsPerChild  0
> > </IfModule>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:00, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
>
> > My gues is that you have MaxClients set way too high.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jay Berryman wrote:
> >
> > > I have been seeing the following error messages in /var/log/messages
> > > every couple of days.
> > >
> > > kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 5524 (httpd)
> > >
> > >  These type of messages continue on through the log until the server
> > > crashes.  I believe it is a memory leak in apache, but I have no idea
> > > what is causing it.  I am currently running RedHat 9.0 on kernel
> > > 2.4.20-8smp with apache version 2.0.40.   The server is completly up to
> > > date with the latest redhat bugfixes and errata.  Any help on this issue
> > > would be greatly apreciated.  Thanks.
> > >
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> > > Jay Berryman
> > > Systems Engineer, RHCT
> > >
> > >
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