On 7/13/05, Dan Trainor <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Well, you already got one response, and you haven't given us the details of your configuraiton, nor have you really told if anything is wrong besides the warnings. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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