> > 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
What are you using to control process size? Apache::SizeLimit? It looks
like you have some code that hogs memory, and you'll need to control it
somehow. Most people have servers more in the range of 10-40MB, with a
bunch of that shared.
- Perrin