Hello, Read this document: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/perf-tuning.html
My guess is that child processes consume extra memory, as the server creates them when there are many clients connected simultenously. Note that it's a perfomance optimization: child processes will be there ready to handle clients when they arrive as soon as possible. Though you could control how many child processes may hang around idle with the MaxSpareServers directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html#maxspareservers Note that if you really restrict that, the server may lose performance (ie. get slower), because then it needs to create the necessary child processes when clients connect. It's also possible that Apache caches some files those requested pretty often, but AFAIK this feature is not on by default so you must have manually configured it, so most likely you would know about it then. Regards, MegaBrutal 2010/8/20 Pravesh Rai <pravesh....@gmail.com>: > Hi All, > > Found that, on Windows x86 & x64 setup, memory consumption (by > httpd.exe) gets increased with time, under stress conditions. Is there way, > through configuration settings, to control this resource usage ? > > Thanks, > PR --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
