[users@httpd] a lot of defunct processes and messages in error_log

[Jeremy Hansen <je...@methanesea.com>]

I'm getting a lot of these:

[Mon Aug 11 11:40:48 2003] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to 
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there 
are 0 idle, and 11 total children

and a lot of these:

nobody   19869  0.5  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:42   0:00 [httpd 
<defunct>]

so I'm just wondering if there a formula for determining the proper 
StartServers and Min/MaxSpareServers based on load.  Is it common to get 
large pursts of spawned servers and then have them defunct themselves?

Thanks
-jeremy


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