On Feb 9, 2013 9:26 PM, "Adam Carter" <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Can't; mod_php isn't compatible with mpm_worker. You have to use a single-threaded mpm like prefork or itk. Anyway, you're starting to get the idea why you want a caching proxy in front of apache.
