Re: Little explanation

[Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam <vpram86@xxxxxxxxx>]

StartServers - number of httpd processes started when you initially start the web server

MinSpareServers - the minimimun limit or number of httpd processes that will always be available at any point in time without serving requests i guess

MaxSpareServers - the max limit corresponding to the above :)

ServerLimit - the max httpd processes that can exist at any point in time. No new httpd process will be created once this limit is reached

MaxClients - maximum number of simultaneous client connections or httpd processes serving requests at any point in time. u cannot open or get your request served by web server once this limit is reached.

MaxRequestsPerChild - maximum number of requests a spawned httpd process can serve. once this is reached, httpd parent recycles the process (i think am correct in this. 90% sure)

 

Further, i hope u r aware of prefork model. Only one parent will start first which will inturn spawm many processes depending on these settings and load. that parent is also responsible for recylcing child/spawned process periodically

 

Regards
Prasanna Ram

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Darvin Denmian <darvin.denmian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello list,

i need some information about the above directives:

<IfModule prefork.c>
   StartServers            8
   MinSpareServers    5
   MaxSpareServers   20
   ServerLimit              288
   MaxClients              256
   MaxRequestsPerChild  4000
</IfModule>

There is a good soul that can explain each directive listed above?

Thanks.

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