> > Should be done now. > > yep, i'm gonna test it. i used trac to make stress test for the system. i send a lot of various request to certain trac pages for cca 5 min and waited cca 10min to have all pages showed in browser. in that time aussie load reached 24 https processes (you can see the peak around t=2120).
after this peak it took the system aprox hour of time to get back to 8 httpd processes and some reasonable load (0.3 in time i'm writing this). during that one hour i watched apache logs and there was no extraordinary traffic which could be responsible for such kind of load ranging between 10-20. so i conclude this was needed just for (un)swapping purposes and cleaning processes which finally lead back to low load and number of httpd processes. this is _far_too_high_ and i suggest we should still go down with the number of maxclients; there is no point in allowing 24 apaches when their only work is swapping the whole box to death. i have observed that 8 processes are able to qork on some 0.x load, so this is the lower bound and i would say lets put the higher bound somewhere between 12-15. pavel
