Re: Big memory use after update

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:28, geoff wrote:

> >>I'm not an Apache expert but this looks like Apache keeping buffers on
> >>the grounds you might need them again rather than a leak.
>
> Which if it were true in 0.31 is presumably doubly true in 0.34.
>
> So *does* anybody know or will I ask my annoyingly niave questions on
> the Apache list?

Yes, this is the way apache works, a deliberate design. If an httpd
process suddenly needs 100 megs of memory to get a task done, it will
not release the memory after the request is finished. It holds onto it,
because it "might be needed" for future requests.

So the real issue here is prevention: no subversion request should
*ever* require a huge amount of memory. There should be no leaks in the
first place.

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Received on Thu Dec 4 22:42:12 2003