Re: MaxChildRequests and modperl - issue

[Perrin Harkins]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Justin wrote:

> What I think happens is the children die after their last request,
> and apache does not kick off a new child straight away.. MinFree is
> set to 2

Does it help if you crank MinSpareServers higher?

> Perhaps having my own ChildRequest counter and dieing myself, but more
> randomly, is a better way?

You could look into using Apache::SizeLimit or Apache::GTopLimit
instead.  I do this and set MaxRequestsPerChild to 0 for unlimited.  This
way your processes only die when necessary.  

- Perrin