oversized httpd process?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 24), Lei Sun said:
> Now that I think about it, I did install the eaccelerator for php,
> and configured it to take 128Mb for eaccelerator.shm_size. It also
> appears that when I reboot the machine A without pointing my browser
> to it once, the httpd processes are quite small. BUT...
> 
> Even with the 2 php application that I installed (phpmyadmin,
> mediawiki), I don't think there should be that much caching going on.
> Since if I add the total size of the 2 application together, they
> won't even hit 20MB. In other words, my understanding would be: even
> if eaccelerator wants to cache them all, eaccelerator wouldn't be
> able to find that much stuff to cache, and it would always be less
> than 20MB.

Apparently eaccellerator mmaps the entire shm segment whether it is
currently using it or not.

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	Dan Nelson
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