could phpdig cause this?

[dudaah]

Hi,

I'm having a VPS thing with a company and from time to time, something called privvmpages and its value causes the server to act very strange. Something on the server is using the available ram to the amount that it max out causing the server to act very unstable.

Here's what the support crew ansered me.

"Your privvmpages value (as can be seen by using the command: cat /proc/user_beancounters) is currently at 898954, and has spiked to 900679. There is a soft limit at 900000, so it is being stopped from exceeding that.

Normal usage should be around 70,000 to 80,000 - so your current usage is around 15 times that.

This suggests that there is a memory leak somewhere in a script or aplication on your server; do you have custom scripts installed?"

Could this be caused by php dig? I have no other script that I can imagine would cause this thing so I'm a bit confused over here. Would appreciate you feedback on this?

Thanks,

Patrik

[dudaah]

Actually here's some additional info... I took phpdig away from the server and directly the privvmpages value dropped to 22.000. So I guess it's pretty safe to say that it was phpdig that caused it.

Maybe it's a bug that needs to be addresses even as this problem probably would not appear on a shared hosting service as they normally don't monitor where the spikes are coming from like the vps service does???

[Charter]

Hi. Maybe one of the following links will be helpful...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/thread/245844-1.html
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/thread/231547-1.html
http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2003.02/msg00034.html
http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2003.02/msg00046.html