On Aug 20, 2013 5:05 PM, "Rose, John B" <jbrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Thanks for replying.
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> Yes, it is prefork MPM.
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> Reading this in the Apache documentation …
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> "Do not set the value of this directive any higher than what you might want to set MaxClients to."
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> It also says …
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> "Special care must be taken when using this directive. If ServerLimit is set to a value much higher than necessary, extra, unused shared memory will be allocated"
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> What is classified as "much higher?"
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> Is there a negative (or positive) impact of any kind of, for example, setting ServerLimit to 2000 and MaxClients to 512?
Unclear what much higher means, especially on a modern machine. I'd be extremely surprised if 2000 has any noticeable impact. But you could measure actual shm use with diff values.
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> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#serverlimit
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> Thanks
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> From: Jeff Trawick <trawick@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:50 PM
> To: "users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: What is the impact of setting ServerLimit higher than MaxClients?
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> On Aug 20, 2013 4:26 PM, "Rose, John B" <jbrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > What is the impact of setting the ServerLimit to a value significantly more than your MaxClients value? Say with a MaxClients set to 512 and ServerLimit of 2000?
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> Assuming prefork MPM:
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> You can increase maxclients across graceful restart, up to serverlimit
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> Threaded MPMs: comparing maxclients vs server limit doesn't work without also accounting for threadsperchild
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