Try using the worker model. You can limit the process with multiple threads. Thanks Arnab
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Nicholas Sherlock <n.sherl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Timothy Martin wrote: > >> Anyway, despite having the prefork mpm set with a limit of 6, my watchdog >> process (monit) will report process count shooting up over 50. I can't >> figure out how apache is letting itself get so many processes spinning out >> of control. Monit then restarts the server and everything is fine again >> until the next surge of page requests. >> >> my Prefork MPM is setup as such: >> StartServers 3 >> MinSpareServers 3 >> MaxSpareServers 6 >> MaxClients 80 >> MaxRequestsPerChild 2500 >> > > MaxSpareServers is the maximum number of *spare* servers, that is, servers > that are not serving clients but are instead sitting there doing nothing. > MaxClients is the parameter which controls the maximum number of (busy or > idle) Apache processes. > > Cheers, > Nicholas Sherlock > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >