On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:07 -0300, Darvin Denmian 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. > Start 8 server processes at start up. Always have at least 5 idle processes available. If you have more than 20 idle processes available, kill some of them. Never have more than 288 processes in total. Never have more than 256 simultaneous requests. After a single process has handled 4000 non keepalive requests, die. That is specifically for prefork, those directives have different meanings for different MPM. Check the directive quick reference[1] for more details. Cheers Tom [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/quickreference.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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