> > 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. > > Shall we do something about > MaxRequestsPerChild 50
if i understand it correctly this parameter will speed up return to normal (<=8) number of childern and its point is mainly preventing memory leaks. pavel