Sure, so long as Apache doesn't have any additional modules loaded. If > it's got something like mod_php loaded (extraordinarily common), > mod_perl or mod_python (less common, now) then the init time of > mod_php gets added to the init time for every request handler. >
Interesting, so if you have to use mod_php you'd probably be better off running Worker than Prefork, and you'd want to keep MaxConnectionsPerChild on the higher side, to reduce init work you've mentioned, right? May also help to verify that KeepAlive is on and tweak MaxKeepAliveRequests a little higher.
