Query on number of child process created for worker MPM

[Rajesh Tammineni <rctammineni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am running apache 2.2 version on Linux OS and there is no configuration values defined in my apache configuration.

I believe it takes all below default values.

ServerLimit 16
 StartServers 2
MaxClients 400
MinSpareThreads 75
MaxSpareThreads 250
ThreadsPerChild 25

ListenBacklog 511

I am observing sometimes child process are reaching 30 to 32.

I was in an impression the child process can create only 16 as per above default ServerLimit value. Could you please clarify on this?

Also I am seeing MaxClients reached when I restart apache server. So that means it will error MaxClients reached only once in server life?

Thanks,

Raj