Re: Addendum for very heavily loaded BSD servers

[Chuck Murcko <ch...@telebase.com>]

Thanks, Marc. I forgot that little detail. 8^( Odds are that we will make
the hard server limit software configurable Real Soon Now.

I'll update the page.

Marc Slemko liltingly intones:
> 
> [Sent to brian@organic.com since he is listed as the contact for additions
> to the web page; also to Chuck because he wrote the thing to begin with]
> 
> At http://www.apache.org/docs/perf-bsd44.html there is a document, with
> the latter half written by Chuck, talking about tips for heavily loaded
> BSD servers.  It talks about increasing MaxClients above 150, but doesn't
> mention that this will do _no_ good unless you change the
> HARD_SERVER_LIMIT define in httpd.h since currently apache just uses
> HARD_SERVER_LIMIT instead of MaxClients if MaxClients > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. 
> HARD_SERVER_LIMIT is 150 in the apache distribution. 
> 
> I've sent a bug report off suggesting that apache should whine if
> MaxClients > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT, but it is probably worth mentioning on the
> web page.
> 
> 
> 

chuck
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