Pete, Definitely. You're right. This is only valid for the MPM worker, not prefork.
I was still sleeping when I jumped in this thread. Sorry guys. Luis Alen (31) 3239.4001 luis.a...@izap.com.br <pedrogoncal...@izap.com.br> iZap Tecnologia e Serviços http://izap.com.br On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Pete Houston <p...@openstrike.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 08:33:58AM -0300, Luis Fernando Alen wrote: > > Perhaps your prefork settings are the cause of the issue. > > > > Look, you have 80 StartServers and 120 MaxSpareServers, and with such > > settings, apache can spawn 9600 (80*120) children. > > That's not how prefork works. I think you are confusing prefork with a > threaded MPM? > > Pete > -- > Openstrike - improving business through open source > http://www.openstrike.co.uk/ or call 01722 770036 / 07092 020107 >