Re: [users@httpd] Re: guidance on how to track down crazy apache processes

[Arnab Ganguly <ag...@gmail.com>]

Try using the worker model. You can limit the process with multiple threads.
Thanks
Arnab

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Nicholas Sherlock <n....@gmail.com>wrote:

> Timothy Martin wrote:
>
>> Anyway, despite having the prefork mpm set with a limit of 6, my watchdog
>> process (monit) will report process count shooting  up over 50. I can't
>> figure out how apache is letting itself get so many processes spinning out
>> of control. Monit then restarts the server and everything is fine again
>> until the next surge of page requests.
>>
>> my Prefork MPM is setup as such:
>>       StartServers            3
>>        MinSpareServers         3
>>        MaxSpareServers         6
>>        MaxClients                      80
>>        MaxRequestsPerChild     2500
>>
>
> MaxSpareServers is the maximum number of *spare* servers, that is, servers
> that are not serving clients but are instead sitting there doing nothing.
> MaxClients is the parameter which controls the maximum number of (busy or
> idle) Apache processes.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas Sherlock
>
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