I'm assuming that since I have plenty of memory and plenty of CPU capacity and I am trying to come up with a configuration for a site that will have very high peak loads that I would want plenty of spare servers to service a sudden influx of requests. What would you suggest. ----- Original Message ---- From: Joshua Slive <joshua@xxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:55:36 PM Subject: Re: Re: High volume issues using mod_proxy (balancer,http,ajp) on Apache 2.2.4 across multiple tomcat 5.5.23 clusters - Configuration issues or bugs? On 5/23/07, justin wright <juston_riteon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've set the apache confs to use the following > > StartServers 512 > ServerLimit 1024 > MaxClients 1024 > MinSpareServers 256 No comment on the ajp stuff, but MinSpareServers is still way too high. Why would you want to ask apache to keep a MINimum of 256 SPARE (idle/unused) SERVERS (processes) available at all times? 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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