memory leaks?

I had Bricolage running continuously without restarting for
about 2 months.  Late last week, I got a call from a user
that the system was not responding.  When I logged into the
machine, there were several httpd processes that had gobbled
up all the available memory and nearly overflowed my swap
space.  I couldn't even shut down the machine from the
command line in a reasonable amount of time due to it being
so unresponsive so I ended up taking it down the hard way.

I've put in a cron job to restart the bricolage web server
once per evening.  Is this a common practice?  Anyone know
if mod_perl or parts of Bric leak memory?

Thanks,

Dave

Hi David. It's Perl's fault, not Bricolage's.

The good news is that CHECK_PROCESS_SIZE and
Apache::SizeLimit are your
friends.

See here:

http://www.bri
colage.cc/docs/faq/#s6q6


Hope this helps,

Bret


On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 05:14 -0500, Beaudet, David P. wrote:
> I had Bricolage running continuously without restarting
for about 2 months.  Late last week, I got a call from a
user that the system was not responding.  When I logged into
the machine, there were several httpd processes that had
gobbled up all the available memory and nearly overflowed my
swap space.  I couldn't even shut down the machine from the
command line in a reasonable amount of time due to it being
so unresponsive so I ended up taking it down the hard way.
> 
> I've put in a cron job to restart the bricolage web
server once per evening.  Is this a common practice?  Anyone
know if mod_perl or parts of Bric leak memory?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
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