Re: apache and php ate up all my memory :-[

At 19.06.2001 15:37, you wrote:

Hi all Probably some Apache/mysql/php-Admin gurus can give me a hint : i just moved a website to it's own server ( my first one). now apache had eaten up all physical and virtual memory some httpd had allocated 45MB of RAM, memory ran out myqsl crashed...

<snipped techie details> My best guess is that somewhere in the code for your site you have a loop which either allocations or fills up memory with variables on each loop... For some reason this loop didn't exit as you ment it to, and therefore proceeded to eat as much ram as it possibly could chew in the time it should be allowed to run. You didn't say, but my guess is that this is running some Linux flavor, and due to the "poor-ish" mem-handling under Linux the box bogged down when it realized that it had nada physical and virtual memory left and therefore did get around to killing the apache-process running the runaway script before you got around to doing it... -- Andreas D Landmark / noXtension Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then.