Re: PHP mem leaks

> Shoot me down if this should go on the gen list but I think this question > would get a better answer on this list. > > I am running a large PHP/MySQL/Apache driven website and I am finding that > the apache Processes get larger and larger as the days go on. When I > stop/start apache the processes are around 16-17 meg each and after a week > they are about 40meg each and if we then get a large in flux of traffic say > a Monday lunch time the server just pages out and dies... > > I have been on the apache list given them all my modules that I have running > and they pointed the finger at PHP, I was told to change maxrequestsperchild > to 100 but this made no difference. Is there a fix for this? or a planned > fix for this? > Its most likely _not_ a PHP related issue, simply because PHP memory is almost always cleaned up on request shutdown (ie, after Apache has served the request), my guess is it would be something else, however, it could possibly be due to the libraries that you are compiling with PHP. A good place to ask such questions is on the php-general@lists.php.net mailing list. -Sterling >