Dan Trainor wrote: > Hello, all - > > This is a subject that's been discussed on the list before, but an > answer never was quite found. > > I've got a rather busy site, and often times I get some of the following > pieces of info in my log: > > [Mon Jul 11 12:33:17 2005] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to > increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, > there are 55 idle, and 278 total children > [Mon Jul 11 12:33:18 2005] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to > increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 16 children, > there are 60 idle, and 286 total children > > Something to that effect. > > I was told once that StartServers should be rather high for a busy site. > StartServers is set to 64. I was also told that MinSpareServers and > MaxSpareServers should be relative to StartServers, being two's > compliment, but it would take some time to figure out the exact > combination of the three items. MaxClients is set to 1024, with some > httpd.h editry. The machine is a P4 2.8 w/1G RAM. It's not the most > ballsy, but I know it can handle the load. > > So I guess I'm wondering now, what would be some more appropriate > settings, so that I do not risk clients being cut off when they visit > the sites. > > Of course, any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > -dant > Hi - Just checking up on this one to see if anyone wouldn't mind giving me a hand. Thanks! -dant --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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