>>>>> "J" == Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> and apache does not kick off a new child straight away.. MinFree is
J> set to 2 .. as 12 becomes 11 becomes 10 becomes 9, my backend is
J> getting less and less powerful and more and more swamped. When
Make your min-free servers higher, and set max-free servers a bit
higher than that. If it is taking 10 seconds to fire up a new one,
then you should have at least 10 seconds worth of spares for your
load.
The exact values of these parameters can only be gotten by statistical
analysis of your specific load. The apache status page generated from
within apache is a good help to see the max load and how often you got
there.
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