Re: Help troubleshooting performance issue, after "1000 total children" Apache no longer responds to HTTP requests. Not MaxClients issue?

[Luis Fernando Alen <luis.alen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

Definitely. You're right. This is only valid for the MPM worker, not prefork.

I was still sleeping when I jumped in this thread.

Sorry guys.

Luis Alen
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Pete Houston <ph1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 08:33:58AM -0300, Luis Fernando Alen wrote:
> Perhaps your prefork settings are the cause of the issue.
>
> Look, you have 80 StartServers and 120 MaxSpareServers, and with such
> settings, apache can spawn 9600 (80*120) children.

That's not how prefork works. I think you are confusing prefork with a
threaded MPM?

Pete
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