Re: Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

["Chandranshu ." <chandranshu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi André

Our server is handling around 20 requests per second. Please note that this is not a single site. There are many sites that are hosted on this server. As requests to host new site keep coming in, we keep reloading the virtual host config through a graceful restart.

Here are my KeepAlive settings:
   KeepAlive On
   MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
   KeepAliveTimeout 15

Unfortunately, I can't answer why the MaxRequestsPerChild was modified as it was done by the earlier sysad and there is no documentation left around by him. I have been reading up a few articles on tuning the apache performance and am planning to change them as per the requirements of the server.

Please let me know if there is any other config/statistics I can provide which will help in debugging the issue.

Thanks much for your time,
Chandranshu

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chandranshu . wrote:
...
Just to help in getting an idea of your site :
- how many requests is your site typically handling (per second, per minute..) ?
- what is your KeepAlive setting ?

and, why did you change the default for MaxRequestsPerChild ?
any particular reason, or just for the sake of it ?

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