Memory on Apache

[clefeitosa]

Hello guys,

I'm using B11.11 with 4GB of memory and we have an apache running on this server.

This server is always using only 2GB of memory and i don't know why...

Is some configuration in the apache (http.conf or something else) that limit the use of memory?

How can I see why the server is using only 2GB of memory:

SAM -> Performance Monitors -> System Properties:

Physical Memory: 4097.7 MB ││ │
││ ││Real Memory: ││ │
││ ││ Active: 224348.5 KB ││ │
││ ││ Total: 332657.0 KB ││ │
││ ││Virtual Memory: ││ │
││ ││ Active: 389414.4 KB ││ │
││ ││ Total: 578727.2 KB ││ │
││ ││Free Memory Pages: 532140 at 4 KB/page ││ │
││ ││Swap Space: ││ │
││ ││ Avail: 12288 MB ││ │
││ ││ Used: 453 MB

Please, could someone give me a help?

Thanks!

[John Guster · Accepted solution]

post ipcs -mobp please

[clefeitosa]

# ipcs -mobp
IPC status from /dev/kmem as of Fri Aug 3 11:37:05 2007
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID
Shared Memory:
m 0 0x411c0846 --rw-rw-rw- root root 0 348 627 627
m 1 0x4e0c0002 --rw-rw-rw- root root 2 61760 627 629
m 2 0x41201558 --rw-rw-rw- root root 2 8192 627 629
m 24211 0x00000000 D-rw------- root sys 8 100000 27688 27688
m 4 0x06347849 --rw-rw-rw- root root 0 65626 1403 13303
m 5 0xffffffff --rw-r--rw- root root 0 22908 1363 211
m 6 0x5e180007 --rw------- root root 1 512 1677 1677
m 24215 0x00000000 D-rw------- root sys 8 213336 27688 27688
m 8552 0x0c6629c9 --rw-r----- root sys 1 26575208 13303 211
m 9 0x40201334 --rw-rw-rw- runwww www 0 1000 5911 11121

[spex]

> This server is always using only 2GB of
> memory and i don't know why...

And...? You expect Apache to be using more? If Apache needs additional RAM, it will take advantage of it. I don't see what the problem is.

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/webservers/apache/faqs/

[John Guster]

is there any performance issue using 2GB RAM?

[clefeitosa]

Hi,

Thanks for all answer!

> You expect Apache to be using more?
I don't know... Apache was just an ideia

> is there any performance issue using 2GB RAM?
No!

swapinfo -a
Kb Kb Kb PCT START/ Kb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 12582912 70052 12512860 1% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 557692 -557692
memory 3136568 1302208 1834360 42%

[Dennis Handly]

>swapinfo -a

When you do a swapinfo, please use -mat.

(We don't know what no stinkin Kb is and all of those zeroes blind us. :-)