tuning MPM worker

[Chuck Stein <stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am seeking advice on tuning MPM worker parameters for a special use.  
I have 4 redundant servers in a local network , each serving about 64 
clients.  The servers have a custom module used to serve special data to 
a particular application on the clients.  The Apache server is not used 
for anything else and this is a private network.  Maximum usage could be 
as high as 160 clients during a failure of one or more other servers.  
Each client will have only one connection alive at a time with Apache 
and all requests are sequential, there is no pipelining.  At times all 
clients will be started at once and flood the server with requests to 
get the data they need for start-up.  The application will continue to 
request data over time at varying rates.  There will also be times when 
most of the applications are not running, they close their connection to 
the server.  I am also using mem-cache on the servers to minimize disk 
access to the static data being served.

What settings do you suggest to provide for smooth start-up for 64 
clients connecting at once and a maximum load of 160 clients?  I am 
currently seeing a more than the two initial client-servers starting up 
when all 64 clients connect at once.  Here are my current settings:

KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 0
KeepAliveTimeout 60

<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
    StartServers          2
    MaxClients          192
    MinSpareThreads      25
    MaxSpareThreads      75
    ThreadsPerChild      64
    MaxRequestsPerChild   0
</IfModule>

Thank you,
Chuck

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