On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Andreas <619forlife@xxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Trawick wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Andreas <619forlife@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > I want to know how many TCP-connections apache allows at the same time per > default. > > Is it the Max_Clients setting? > If I understand it correctly, it is not the Max_clients-setting because a > Client can have more than one TCP Connection. > > > MaxClients is misnamed, probably because clients generally had only > one connection each when the directive was introduced. > > MaxClients is the maximum number of client connections handled by > httpd simultaneously. (There can be more TCP connections though -- > new connections that haven't yet been noticed by httpd, and > terminating connections that no longer require processing by httpd.) > > MaxClients is subject to system resources, including RAM and file > descriptors. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > > ok thx for the answer.. > > so maxClients means max active TCP Connections that are actually handled by > apache? > > The number of simultaneous TCP-Connections that require no processing of > apache is not fixed? a. new connections, either being established or established but not yet processed by httpd: the number of these might be fixed by TCP layer tuning httpd's ListenBacklog directive does influence the maximum number, but not directly (i.e., not 1:1); higher ListenBacklog "should" allow more connections in this phase, possibly in conjunction with TCP-layer tuning b. old connections, with HTTP processing finished (e.g., TIME_WAIT) the number might be fixed by TCP layer tuning httpd doesn't have any directives that apply to this --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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