Re: [webmin-l] updates

[Barry <we...@i1...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 11/Dec/2006 22:32 Barry wrote ..
>> Jamie Cameron wrote:
>>> On 11/Dec/2006 18:52 Barry wrote ..
>>>> OK - a little more info after some more testing -
>>>>
>>>> It does indeed seem I am running into a low memory condition.
>>>>
>>>> How much memory does miniserv/webmin need anyway?
>>>>
>>>> Miniserv.error gives me the sparse message:
>>>>
>>>> Out of memory!
>>>>
>>>> which doesn't help me help it :(
>>> It really doesn't use much memory.. on one of my systems it uses 95 MB
>> with a bunch
>>> of Webmin libraries pre-loaded to speed up modules. On another machine
>> without
>>> preloading, only 10MB is used.
>>>
>>> By default, module preloading is only setup automatically if using Virtualmin
>> pro.
>>
>> It kinda looks now like the modules that display lists are the most 
>> likely to cause this error. I have seen this behavior before, but I 
>> guess I didn't make the connection until now.
>>
>> Maybe it is not miniserv itself as much as teh perl programs? Virtual 
>> min is one, I have seen it when listing aliases and especially when 
>> listing email for a user account, or the results of a query on email. I
>> also saw it just now when trying to compose an email by a brand new 
>> user. Maybe there is some peak usage there?
>>
>> Also I wonder if the new frames them causes extra hits on the server, 
>> causing it to spawn new children more often then it would have before?
>> Is there some configuration I can do in that area, like I can with apache>
>>
>> As for the discrepancy between the system info display in webmin and top
>> and free, the latter two seem to be in close alignment, a lot closer the
>> webmin display is to either.
>>
>> BTW, I just noticed I had pop/pop3s and smtp active in zinetd, and I 
>> also had sendmail and dovecot running as services. I just turned off the
>> xinetd ones, will see if that helps any.
> 
> I suspect that Webmin is using up too much memory when you do things
> that cause large perl libraries to be loaded, in particular those in
> the Virtualmin module (which has a huge -lib.pl file). It would be
> useful to know the peak size of a miniserv.pl process before it exits ...
> I imagine they are running out of memory and dieing.
> 
>  - Jamie

Is there a way for me to find out the peak size? There doesn't seem to 
be anything in the log file, at least for now...

Best,

Barry