> > > so one though i had about this is that in my httpd-mpm file the only > loaded module is mpm_prefork_module. which has this in it's scope (default > values): > > > > StartServers 5 > > MinSpareServers 5 > > MaxSpareServers 10 > > MaxRequestWorkers 250 > > MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 > > > > is it reasonable to believe that MaxConnectionsPerChild should have some > reasonable limit? will this control how many "dummy" connections are kept > alive? > > > The ServerStatus output below seems correct for the configuration above, > since there are exaclty 10 spare children idling.
that's actually a coincidence… there are a lot more of those now and they are not going away total of 62 with all looking like below except a few that actually have NULL instead of OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 …… 43-0 - 0/0/8 . 0.05 102227 0 0.0 0.00 0.07 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 44-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.02 102243 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 45-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.00 102244 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 46-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.01 102269 0 0.0 0.00 0.02 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 47-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.02 102258 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 48-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.02 102235 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 49-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.02 102242 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 50-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.01 102237 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 51-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.01 102245 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 52-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.01 102246 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 53-0 - 0/0/10 . 0.02 102038 0 0.0 0.00 0.40 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 54-0 - 0/0/6 . 0.02 102152 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 55-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.02 102262 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 56-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.03 102201 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 57-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.04 102230 0 0.0 0.00 0.16 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 58-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.00 102263 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 59-0 - 0/0/3 . 0.02 102229 0 0.0 0.00 0.02 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 60-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.01 102281 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 61-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 102274 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 62-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.01 102233 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 127.0.0.1 my.domain.com:80 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 etc… does this mean that the configuration for MaxSpareServers 10 is ignored somehow?!
