Bug#485413: memory leak

[Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@CARNet.hr>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:47:38PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> Does the apache child grow without bounds when it serves more
> requests or does it stay constant? In the latter case, it is not
> really a memory leak but normal memory usage. It is normal behaviour
> for apache to not return memory to the operating system. Within some
> limits, you can influence that behaviour with the MaxMemFree
> directive.

Size of the children grows over time so we need to recycle them
using MaxRequestsPerChild.  But the question is why apache2/php5
on lenny uses 2-3 times more memory than on etch?  After upgrade
from etch to lenny we had to double the memory on this server
to handle the same number of request.

-- 
Valentin