Re:

[el kalin <kalin@xxxxxx>]

> so one though i had about this is that in my httpd-mpm file the only loaded module is mpm_prefork_module. which has this in it's scope (default values):
>
>     StartServers             5
>     MinSpareServers          5
>     MaxSpareServers         10
>     MaxRequestWorkers      250
>     MaxConnectionsPerChild   0
>
> is it reasonable to believe that MaxConnectionsPerChild should have some reasonable limit? will this control how many "dummy" connections are kept alive?


The ServerStatus output below seems correct for the configuration above, since there are exaclty 10 spare children idling.

that's actually a coincidence…  there are a lot more of those now and they are not going away total of 62 with all looking like below except a few that actually have NULL instead of OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

…… 

43-0 - 0/0/8 . 0.05 102227 0 0.0 0.00 0.07 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

44-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.02 102243 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

45-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.00 102244 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

46-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.01 102269 0 0.0 0.00 0.02 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

47-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.02 102258 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

48-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.02 102235 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

49-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.02 102242 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

50-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.01 102237 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

51-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.01 102245 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

52-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.01 102246 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

53-0 - 0/0/10 . 0.02 102038 0 0.0 0.00 0.40 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

54-0 - 0/0/6 . 0.02 102152 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

55-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.02 102262 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

56-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.03 102201 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

57-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.04 102230 0 0.0 0.00 0.16 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

58-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.00 102263 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

59-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.02 102229 0 0.0 0.00 0.02 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

60-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.01 102281 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

61-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 102274 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

62-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.01 102233 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

etc… 

does this mean that the configuration for 

MaxSpareServers         10

is ignored somehow?!