>>>>> "J" == Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Its still worth stating for the purposes of getting into the J> modperl archive at least, that MaxChildRequests is to be avoided J> for modperl backend setups. I disagree. You just need to have enough back-ends to make sure that you don't overwhelm the remaining ones for enough time that it takes to fire up a replacement. And add more RAM. You can never have enough RAM. (and be sure to configure your operating system to allow mod_perl to use that additional RAM). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/