[Spacewalk-list] Apache2::SizeLimit too big

[Brian Kosick]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:15 -0700, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Brian Kosick <bkosick at mxlogic.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just upgraded to 0.4 from 0.3, I was seeing these errors under 0.3 as
> > well.
> >
> > This is on a server that runs spacewalk and a mercurial repo.  The Specs
> > are
> >
> > Dual Dual Core Xeons, 4GB of RAM, 8GB Swap and a 3TB array.
> >
> > It mostly occurs when I try to delete software packages... anywhere from
> > the default page display of 50 (-500)  Though I can be doing other
> > things as well like trying to manage/deploy configs to more than a few
> > servers at a time.
> >
> >
> > [Fri Jan 16 17:25:13 2009] (29909) Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too
> > big, exiting at SIZE=444864 KB  SHARE=12964 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0
> > seconds
> > [Fri Jan 16 17:25:13 2009] (29912) Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too
> > big, exiting at SIZE=444996 KB  SHARE=12964 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0
> > seconds
> > [Fri Jan 16 17:25:14 2009] (29910) Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too
> > big, exiting at SIZE=444952 KB  SHARE=12800 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0
> > seconds
> > [Fri Jan 16 17:25:14 2009[Fri Jan 16 17:25:14 2009] (29911)
> > Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too big, exiting at SIZE=445084 KB
> > SHARE=12892 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0 seconds
> > [Fri Jan 16 17:25:14 2009] (29922) Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too
> > big, exiting at SIZE=445084 KB  SHARE=12896 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0
> > seconds
> > [Fri Jan 16 17:25:14 2009] (29913) Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too
> > big, exiting at SIZE=445084 KB  SHARE=12896 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0
> > seconds
> > ] (29914) Apache2::SizeLimit httpd process too big, exiting at
> > SIZE=445084 KB  SHARE=12896 KB  REQUESTS=2 LIFETIME=0 seconds
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> 
> Sadly that's a bug we've been chasing for quite some time. Most recently
> reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465796
> 
> I think it's a memory leak because if you increase the SizeLimit it
> will continue
> to grow, I haven't been able to find a value where it stabilizes. If
> you have the
> memory, you might want to try setting it to 1_024_000 to see if it helps.
> 
> It seems to also only affect the perl stack, as the python and java seem to
> do well with memory (at least they seem to level off at some maximum
> threshold).
> 
> Another tidbit is this ONLY affects 64-bit Spacewalk. We have not been able
> to get this to happen on a 32-bit version EVER.  So any data you can give us
> would be helpful, feel free to add your comments and observations to the but
> mentioned above.
> 
> Sincerely,
> jesus

OK thanks for the BZ link...   I'll look into it and see if I can't
contribute to the info in the ticket....
> 
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