> Not having read anything before this, but it seems that your machine is
> going into swap because there is not enough RAM available. That kills
your
> performance always. Could you run your test on a different machine or
> temporarily switch off the regular server?
>
> Trying to run close to 200 Mbyte modperl Apaches on a 256 Mbyte machine is
> not going to work. Have you looked at MaxRequestsPerChild?
This is set at 0
> But even the non-modperl servers at 30 Mbyte size seems ridiculously
large:
> are you sure you need all the modules that you compiled into Apache?
Im sorry that was a mistake the non modeperl apache is like this:
125 nobody 0 0 396 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 5:58 httpd
126 nobody 0 0 296 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:19 httpd
127 nobody 0 0 804 608 504 S 0.0 0.2 8:10 httpd
128 nobody 0 0 888 724 592 S 0.0 0.2 11:21 httpd
129 nobody 0 0 872 712 592 S 0.0 0.2 5:21 httpd
John