Completely unintuitive Apache/PHP memory-freeing behavior
- by David
Okay, this one's weird. I have a Turnkey Linux server with a gig of dedicated RAM. It's running WP3.2 with a boatload of plug-ins. It's a new site, so it has very limited traffic (other than search engines, maybe 20 hits a week).
Now, for a few weeks, every few days, it would max out on main RAM, start eating up virtual RAM, and then crash. It's…