Hi all,

I'm having a really nasty problem with apache 2.0.55 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (64 bit 2x Intel XEON 3,2 Ghz with 2GB RAM).

The problem is that: When i am downloading a large file (say, 100 MB) All the memory is consumed by Apache and the machine hangs. this is very very very troubling me. It happens about 5 times a day.... So i made a small shellscript which checks the memory every minute and if there is less than 50 MB free apache will be restarted and then i have about 1800MB free memory again. And i am ashamed that i have to use such an ugly script to keep these servers away from a nasty crash.

this is the set up:
2 machines with Apache 2.0.55 with a heartbeat between it.
the 2 machines are grabbing their data using NFS from a Novell Netware Cluster which again is using the data from a raid 51 iSCSI-target.

Apache is using MySQL which is also clustered on the Novell cluster.

I know this infrastructure is not the problem because i can use sftp and other services to download the data rapidly.

which i think is the problem is PHP 4.3.4 in combination with Apache 2.0.55. And i want to update all the stuff but there are running a lot of sites on the servers and i'm not sure what the impact is of such an update.

anyone of you has any idea? even pointing in a direction where i have to look is heavily apreciated.

Yours sincerely

Justin Zandbergen

Look at doc's for EnableMMAP, if you are using it.