My mistake, apache2.conf is overridden by /mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf sorry about that...
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Luc Andre <landre3...@gmail.com> wrote: > php_sapi_name: apache2handler > > > Server MPM: prefork > > I tried > > StartServers 20 > MinSpareServers 20 > MaxSpareServers 20 > > And after restarting apache still have the issue but only after waiting > about a minute between 2 tries. > > Then I did a "ps -ef | grep apache" and I discovered that I have only 11 > apache processes running ! > > So it seems that MinSpareServers and StartServers are ignored and the > problem is really a child spin up issue. > > Regards, > > Luc > > > > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Rainer Canavan < > rainer.cana...@sevenval.com> wrote: > >> >> >> 2015-05-12 10:03 GMT+02:00 Luc Andre <landre3...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Thanks for your reply. >>> >>> We did a test on a powerful server with >>> >>> StartServers 20 >>> MinSpareServers 5 >>> MaxSpareServers 20 >>> >>> And we still have the issue... >>> >> >> To ensure that you don't hit the child spin up issue, you'll have to set >> MinSpareServers to a value equal to or greater than the number of >> processes you need for your test, I'd recommend 20 in this case, just to be >> sure. Are you sure that you're using the prefork mpm, and therefore those >> settings are actually relevant? If you don't have a good reason to use >> prefork, you may get better performance with worker or event (but be sure >> to tune the associated settings, such as ThreadsPerChild appropriately) >> >> Additionally, you don't specify how your PHP is configured. If you're >> using PHP-FPM, you need to ensure that pm.start_servers and >> pm.min_spare_servers >> are large enough as well. >> >> rainer >> > >
