>> n Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Joe Novak <jnovak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> ThreadLimit 3600 >> ThreadsPerChild 3200 At these values, you are hitting the boundries of how many stacks are possible on win32 (by default). Adding workers isn't usually the solution, you are increasing the overall contention between requests. You need long-lived workers to handle large content delivery, but for straightforward 1-5 packet requests, the more threads, the worse your observed performance becomes. At which point, you need to wonder if one machine is adequate for the task at hand, or if you need a load balancer and cluster of httpd machines. Never use the same box for instrumentation or measurements, you need to be running in the true stack (MS has never cared to replicate real-world conditions, behavior or compatibility in it's IP loopback driver), from a machine which isn't affecting the behavior of httpd itself due to contention. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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