Hi All, I've asked this on irc and it was suggested that I try asking the dev because the docs aren't clear, but I'll ask here aswell. I'm using apache httpd 2.2.3 with the event MPM to do some traffic throttling to a backend. What I have is this: First, traffic hit a default vhost with lots of rewrite rules such as this: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/page.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*pattern.*$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://trafficclass.localhost/$1 [P,L] In the hosts file, trafficclass.localhost is 127.0.0.1, so from there, the traffic heads back into a vhost. Then I have a vhost with the following in it: <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> DocumentRoot /opt/apache/htdocs ServerName trafficclass.localhost ProxyRequests off ProxyBadHeader Ignore CustomLog /var/log/apache2/gold-access.log combined Errorlog /var/log/apache2/gold-error.log <Location /> ProxyPass http://1.2.3.4/ max=200 acquire=500 # IIS Sucks SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1 SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1 </Location> </Virtualhost> In my setup I have 100 processes with 64 threads per process. Last night during exceptional load, I saw over 3200 connections to the backend. My question - is it possible that max=200 is a per process and not server wide limit? If so, there's a way to set a server wide limit to the backend? Cheers, George -- George Barnett e: george@xxxxxxxxxxx m: +44 797 457 1868 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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