I started playing with simple and found this patch useful.
Big warning letters would be nice for people on OSX that kqueue is broken
:)
-Ryan
Index: docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf.in
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--- docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf.in (revision 712610)
+++ docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf.in (working copy)
@@ -108,3 +108,10 @@
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
+# Simple MPM
+# SimpleProcCount: Number of child processes launched at server startup
+# SimpleThreadCount: Set the number of Worker Threads Per-Process
+<IfModule mpm_simple_module>
+ SimpleProcCount 5
+ SimpleThreadCount 5
+</IfModule>