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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by rb...@covalent.net on 2001/02/22 10:33:48 UTC

Re: how many workers to start initially with threaded mpm?

I agree 100%, but I think your defaults are a bit low.  I would like to
see:
	 StartServers     2 or 3
	 ThreadsPerChild  25

Ryan

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jeff Trawick wrote:

> Currently we *aim* to start up 250 worker threads by default (5 child
> processes, 50 threads each).  (We actually start more, but that can be
> fixed easily enough :) )
>
> That seems pretty excessive for a default configuration.  On my normal
> box for some reason Apache + my normal set of apps exhausts my user
> id's limit for processes/threads.
>
> We all know there are issues here which admins can deal with in order
> to run www.heap-big-server.com, but the normal Apache user doesn't
> need to go down that path.
>
> Currently, these are the defaults:
>
>   StartServers      5
>   ThreadsPerChild   50
>
> I'd like to change this to something like
>
>   StartServers      1
>   ThreadsPerChild   25
>
> for the threaded MPM.  (actual numbers not so important to me as long
> as we aren't starting tons of threads)
>
> Comments?
> --
> Jeff Trawick | trawickj@bellsouth.net | PGP public key at web site:
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>
>


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Re: how many workers to start initially with threaded mpm?

Posted by Jeff Trawick <tr...@bellsouth.net>.
rbb@covalent.net writes:

> I agree 100%, but I think your defaults are a bit low.  I would like to
> see:
> 	 StartServers     2 or 3
> 	 ThreadsPerChild  25

That works for me :)

-- 
Jeff Trawick | trawickj@bellsouth.net | PGP public key at web site:
       http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9289/
             Born in Roswell... married an alien...