Hi,

I am running apache2.2.12 along with PHP 5.2.10. PHP is configured to run as a separate process through fcgid. The problem is that when users upload a file, size of the apache process swells by almost the same amount. So if somebody tries to upload a 200 MB file, one of the child process swells to current size+200 MB. If 2 users simultaneously start uploading, my server crashes.

Now it is the virtual memory size which is increasing but since I am on a OpenVZ based VPS, that is what counts.

My questions are:

• Is it the normal Apache behavior or can I do something to fix this?
• If not, is there a more memory efficient way of handling big file uploads. Going by the current behavior, I will need 1 GB of free RAM for every apache child accepting a upload.

Thanks!

Abhaya

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