thank you Joshua, I tried to mount the numbers, but I fear this was too high, cause the apache server could not be started anymore. Could you give me an idea about the amount please. As I told you we have at the moment: (original values) StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 3 MaxSpareServers 5 MaxClients 100 (50 was the original value) If we change the values to: StartServers 10 MinSpareServers 6 MaxSpareServers 10 say double the values, is this what you would propose? Thanks for a tip. Regards Mike Roland > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Joshua > Slive > Gesendet: Samstag, 5. August 2006 21:10 > An: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: Re: [users@httpd] server busy > > > On 8/5/06, Mididoc Productions <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hello, > > > > we get a message in apache log-file that the server is to busy > and that we > > should rise the amount: > > > > [Sat Aug 5 17:08:53 2006] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to > > increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 > children, there > > are 2 idle, and 12 total children > > > > At the moment we have following values: > > > > StartServers 5 > > > > MinSpareServers 3 > > MaxSpareServers 5 > > > > > > Could anybody please tell us which values we should use? > > The message in the error log is just informational. It only means > your server will be slightly slower responding to load changes; no big > deal. > > To get rid of it, you should increase all three of those numbers. A > good number for StartServers is your average number of simultaneous > clients. MinSpareServers should be big enough to absorbe your typical > changes in load. MaxSpareServers should be somewhat bigger than > MinSpareServers. > > You can use the server-status handler of mod_status to observe > activity on your server to fine tune these settings. > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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