[Ilugc] [tech help] calling out for help from ubuntu system administrators

[Girish Venkatachalam]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Karan Ahuja <karan26.ahuja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello group
>
> we have launched a big application and are suddenly on the edges of our
> Linux system administration knowledge .
>
> apache is taking up all memory before going down .
>
> System administrators - please help out with ideas
>
> I am ready for receiving paid help as well - plz email off the list
>
> Looking forward to make server up again .
>
> Thanks and best regards
>

No direct help here. Sorry.

However there is one remark.

I have used apache quite a bit and I have also coded in the guts of
Apache 10 years ago.

And I can tell this much with a lot of confidence.

Apache is top class code. I am not talking about the 2.x branch which
uses threads.

Or about tomcat or about php.

I am talking about Apache 1.x with mod_perl or without that.

And it is one of the best written pieces of software.

Long ago I had done some LOC counts and found that Apache roughly
matches the LOC of Linux
kernel. I could be wrong and don't hijack this thread based on that.

However to identify your problem you have to look at some low level
network issues.

I think Apache won't be the culprit.

-Girish


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