Thanks for the quick turn around. The reason i had the doubt was since there are 7 other webservers in the webserver farm to which the load balancer sends requests and only the first one seems to have 400 slots shown. The others have of the order of < 200 slots shown - though the number of active workers on each webserver is almost the same. Thanks Ramdas "Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx> Sent by: To jslive@xxxxxxxxx users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No Phone Info cc Available Subject Re: How to interpret 08/01/2007 06:52 server-status from mod_status PM module? Please respond to users@xxxxxxxxxxx e.org On 8/1/07, Ramdas.Hegde@xxxxxxxxxxx <Ramdas.Hegde@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am using Apache 2.0.48 in prefork MPM mode and am not sure how to > interpret the stat which shows "accesses this connection/child/slot". > What is a "slot" ? The server-status shows 400 slots with most of them > being "open slot with no process" and the rest which is less than 30 > workers being active. Does it mean at some point in time there were 400 > active workers and hence these slots were created? Nah. You have 400 slots because MaxClients is set to 400 so apache creates a scoreboard (inter-process communication location) with space for 400 children to be tracked. > Since the number of accesses/slot against the busy workers is of the order > of 40-50k, was wondering if forcing a value of say 10k on > MaxRequestsPerChild would help with performace? No, not unless you have a memory leak someplace. 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