[ic] Is there limitations on number of catalogs run?

[Ed LaFrance]

At 11:02 PM 7/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>This is in relation to the previous e-mail I sent wherein I stated I've
>been having problems with my Apache web servers recently being unable to
>spawn children.  I guess what's happening is that the interchange user is
>running interchange binary in cgi-bin and taking too much resources so after
>a few hours, cgi-bin in general won't work.  Is that the case?  I have
>defined 6 catalogs with high traffic in interchange.cfg.  Is there a
>limit to number of catalogs I can define per interchange.cfg?  Can I run
>multiple interchange processes?  I see only one when I do "ps."  Is there
>anything I can do to ensure that I can have multiple catalogs without
>hosing my web server?
>
>I have defined the interchange user to be able to run in 10MB memory space
>and max nproc of 200.  My Apache user is likewise defined.  I also have
>the expireall daily as recommended.

That is really not enough - in most instances that I've observed the IC 
process takes 12 - 20 MB of RAM, even when "idling".

- Ed L.


>Furthermore, any recommendations on what timeout per child should I set?
>I have each child web process die after 100 requests.  Is that too low?
>
>Thanks all.
>
>--
>Ciao ?:-)
>Shirlyn, the WebPrincess
>
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