Konstantin Yotov wrote: > MaxClients 150 > MaxRequestsPerChild 0 You're probably running out of memory and going into swap, which will give terrible performance. MaxClients 150 is really high, and you should only set MaxRequestsPerChild to 0 if you're using Apache::SizeLimit or Apache::GTopLimit.
There's a lot of information about these settings in the guide at http://perl.apache.org/guide/. - Perrin