Not entirely serious, but today, we actually hit this, in production :) The hardware, a dual 2Ghz Xeon with 12Gb RAM with Linux 2.6.1-rc2 coped, and remained responsive. So 20,000 may no longer be outside the realms of what administrators reasonably desire to have.
Index: server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c,v retrieving revision 1.286 diff -u -u -r1.286 prefork.c --- server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c 1 Jan 2004 13:26:25 -0000 1.286 +++ server/mpm/prefork/prefork.c 7 Jan 2004 21:24:55 -0000 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ * some sort of compile-time limit to help catch typos. */ #ifndef MAX_SERVER_LIMIT -#define MAX_SERVER_LIMIT 20000 +#define MAX_SERVER_LIMIT 100000 #endif #ifndef HARD_THREAD_LIMIT -- Colm MacC�rthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
