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Date: 24 Jun 1999 00:33:01 -0000
From: James@hyperreal.org, C.Armstrong@hyperreal.org,
  Jr. <james@jamesarmstrong.com>
Reply-To: james@jamesarmstrong.com
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: Large memory growth, followed by occaisonal server failures
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>Number:         4642
>Category:       os-linux
>Synopsis:       Large memory growth, followed by occaisonal server failures
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 23 17:40:00 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     james@jamesarmstrong.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.6 (default version for redhat 6.0)
>Environment:
Standard out-of-the-box RedHat Linux 6.0.  Apache is the version delivered with 
RH 6.0.
>Description:
We have observed that the version of apache that was installed with RedHat 6.0 will experience
growth of the shared memory segment; we have seen shared segments in sizes exceeding 100 Mbytes in
less than 5 hours of operation.  Nightly, when we rotate logs, we would perform a kill -HUP
to start a new logfile; this would freeze or crash the server (Dell Pentium Poweredge 4300
single processor with 256 MBytes RAM, 512 MByte configured swap, 18 Gbytes RAID 5 using RedHat 
drivers.)

I did not see anything in the bug database for this, although I did see some similar
on Solaris.
>How-To-Repeat:
If needed, I can provide a copy of our httpd.conf file, we do virtual hosting for several domains.
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
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