On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Chris Pepper wrote: > The max-requests parameter to KeepAlive in core.html is confusing me. > > ><P><STRONG>Apache 1.1</STRONG>: Set <EM>max-requests</EM> > >to the maximum number of requests you want Apache to entertain per > >request. A limit is imposed to prevent a client from hogging your > >server resources. Set this to <CODE>0</CODE> to disable support. > > "number of requests ... per request." is unclear -- does > anyone here have a clarification? Is it URL requests per Keep-Alive > request, or something else?
Should be "numer of requests ... per connection." > > Also, is this max-requests parameter equivalent to > MaxKeepAliveRequests? Does this value default to unlimited? > Yes. It defaults to 5 in Apache 1.1 which use KeepAlive 5 and it defaults to 100 in 1.2+ which use KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 Joshua.
