----- Original Message ----- > Hi, Hi Samuel, > We got some problem of apache freezing and system going down. > > The virtual guest httpd (we don't manage the host) is a 4 cpu machine > with 32 GB RAM on debian Lenny. > > Around 3 000 or 4 000 high volume php website are on the virtual > machine. We see with apache2ctl fullstatus that there is sometime a > lot > of process with W status not killed when the machine going down ... > and > if we kill that PID the machine doesn't go down and we can take the > control easy again with no lag. > > So for starting, and for a volume of 5 req/sec and 150 Kb /s but for > an > inactive period, how can we tune our config : > > <IfModule mpm_prefork_module> > StartServers 5 > MinSpareServers 5 > MaxSpareServers 20 > MaxClients 90 > MaxRequestsPerChild 0 > </IfModule> > > We would like that 200 persons could be connected with a 150 MB > memory > per apache process. > > How to tune apache to achieve this and of course not freezing like > now ? > > P.S. the heavy framework Symfony is working with apache. Please take a look at our (new) performance docs http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PerformanceScalingUp Then come back with (more, more concrete?) questions so we can improve those docs ;) > Thanks a lot. > > Samuel. So long, i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx