On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, George Bonser wrote:

I took it out of the load balancer and regained control in
seconds. The 15 minute load average showed somewhere over 150
with a bazillion apache processes. Even top -q would not update
when I put it back into the balancer. The load average and
number of processes started to increase until I got to some
point where it would just stop providing output. Again, control
returned within seconds after taking it out of the balancer. As
far as I could tell, I never at any time got more than 100MB
into swap.

OK, I guess it's just thrashing.  Having 64MB of RAM with
250 Apache processes will give you about 256kB per Apache
process ... minus page table, TCP, etc... overhead.

That sounds like the machine just gets a working set
larger than the amount of available memory. It should
work better with eg. 96, 128 or more MBs of memory.

regards,

Rik
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