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quanta
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Tracking down WHAT is causing the problem can be a pain in the ass. The first thing I'd do if I had a problem like that is reduce MaxRequestsPerChildMaxRequestsPerChild to an aggresively low number (~100-200) and see if that makes a difference. If it does, then you probably have code that is leaking memory in a loop somewhere and you'll want to run a code audit.

Another thing to look at is Apache's fullstatus, see if you can find out what particular request is causing the memory leak. Get the PIDs on your suspected processes and run an strace on them.

Tracking down WHAT is causing the problem can be a pain in the ass. The first thing I'd do if I had a problem like that is reduce MaxRequestsPerChild to an aggresively low number (~100-200) and see if that makes a difference. If it does, then you probably have code that is leaking memory in a loop somewhere and you'll want to run a code audit.

Another thing to look at is Apache's fullstatus, see if you can find out what particular request is causing the memory leak. Get the PIDs on your suspected processes and run an strace on them.

Tracking down WHAT is causing the problem can be a pain in the ass. The first thing I'd do if I had a problem like that is reduce MaxRequestsPerChild to an aggresively low number (~100-200) and see if that makes a difference. If it does, then you probably have code that is leaking memory in a loop somewhere and you'll want to run a code audit.

Another thing to look at is Apache's fullstatus, see if you can find out what particular request is causing the memory leak. Get the PIDs on your suspected processes and run an strace on them.

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matt
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Tracking down WHAT is causing the problem can be a pain in the ass. The first thing I'd do if I had a problem like that is reduce MaxRequestsPerChild to an aggresively low number (~100-200) and see if that makes a difference. If it does, then you probably have code that is leaking memory in a loop somewhere and you'll want to run a code audit.

Another thing to look at is Apache's fullstatus, see if you can find out what particular request is causing the memory leak. Get the PIDs on your suspected processes and run an strace on them.