Hi, I have read the document of the above parameters. My understanding from the reading is that every time the MinSpareServers (MNSS) falls below 5, the default value, Apache will create enough server to satify the MNSS value. Since the default StartServers (SS) is 5, when the first request comes in, Apache will have to start and create another server to replace the server that is serving the first request. My question is: should I set the SS to be greater than the MNSS, so the above scenario would be reduced. Another question, when the server is serving a request, it normally passes the request to the other modules to process the request, ie, oc4j, perl or php modules, is this server immediately free to process another request? Or does it wait for the same request to come back? Thanks, Charles Li __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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