After some debugging it proves that the configuration directive is correctly recognized by httpd. When we are logging the following variable in a module for each request : char *id = apr_psprintf(r->pool, "%" APR_PID_T_FMT "-%d", getpid(), apr_atomic_inc32(&next_id)); there are around 3- 4 thousands occurrences for each pid, below the max setting of 100,000. ----- Original Message ---- From: alin vasile <alinachegalati@xxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 5:18:56 PM Subject: Re: MaxRequestsPerChild for worker mpm It is worker... ./httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c mod_authn_file.c mod_authn_default.c mod_authz_host.c mod_authz_groupfile.c mod_authz_user.c mod_authz_default.c mod_auth_basic.c mod_include.c mod_filter.c mod_log_config.c mod_env.c mod_setenvif.c mod_version.c worker.c http_core.c mod_mime.c mod_status.c mod_autoindex.c mod_asis.c mod_cgid.c mod_negotiation.c mod_dir.c mod_actions.c mod_userdir.c mod_alias.c mod_so.c ----- Original Message ---- From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 5:05:16 PM Subject: Re: MaxRequestsPerChild for worker mpm On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM, alin vasile <alinachegalati@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > sorry, my bad here. we are using the worker mpm. > Your original message said you were using prefork. httpd -l to confirm please. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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