Greetings all,
I am still learning apache/linux but have been thrown into the role of admin with a virtual dedicated server running one of our websites. The server is running CentOS 5.5 with php 5.1.6 and apache 2.2.3
I am having an issue with the server crashing 2-3 times a week. I have checked the error log and it doesn't show any issues. However, before the server crashes a run of the top command shows heavy swap usage (we have 2GB RAM and 2GB swap). Swap runs out, and server stops responding until reboot. I have tried as a temporary solution setting a cron job to reboot the server every couple of nights, but it still hasn't seemed to have fixed the problem.
One other thing I noticed is that each apache/httpd process seems to take up about 50-60MB each of memory. Our site is a dynamic site running joomla 1.5 (last version of it before 1.6) and mysql 5. (Will have to check on version)
Here are some settings from httpd.conf that I currently have. Any help you could give me in getting started with solving these issues would be most appreciated. Let me know any additional info I could providde and I would be glad to.
(using prefork)
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
Startservers 4
MinSpareServers 2
MaxSpareServers 10
ServerLimit 50
MaxClients 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 800
