[libvirt-users] LXC guest memory recycling under RHEL6

Hello, I'm running a LXC guest using libvirtd under RHEL6. The guest has this particular memory behavior that I'm unable to explain. I've the following memory settings for this guest's memory. Inside the guest I'm running a Apache webserver serving PHP scripts and static content. <memory unit='GB'>2</memory> <currentMemory unit='GB'>2</currentMemory> <memtune> <hard_limit unit='GB'>2</hard_limit> </memtune> Now, when querying using virsh dominfo I see the amount of used RAM increases every second and it gets to the point where it reaches the limit causing the guest to be unresponsive. The current solution is destroying the guest process (virsh destroy) and starting again, but the behavior repeats again. As I understand what is happening is that the amount of memory used by Apache's processes (4 mpm forks) is never released so every request causes more memory comsumption reaching that point. If I'm correct on this what can I do to handle it? thanks! -- Rudy Godoy http://stone-head.org