I would like to make sure I understand the interaction of Apache and mod_wsgi configuration parameters with respect to memory usage and performance correctly. After reading a couple of posts in this group and at other places, I am still somewhat confused.
Apache (prefork MPM) and mod_wsgi are installed on a small VPS (serving approx. 1000 pages/day), and mod_wsgi is used in daemon mode to run Django applications. I tried tinkering with both the MPM parameters StartServers 1 MinSpareServers 1 MaxSpareServers 5 MaxClients 50 MaxRequestsPerChild 1000 and the WSGIDaemonProcess options WSGIDaemonProcess djangoproject user=nobody group=nobody threads=10 maximum-requests=1000 deadlock-timeout=30 inactivity-timeout=100 stack- size=524288 Switching to mod_wsgi (from mod_python) eliminated the frequent black zone QoS alerts (othersockbuf) I experienced before. But my server still reports hitting the yellow zone (approaching the soft limit for numproc) a couple of times a day (and even the black zone occasionally). I wonder if I can avoid this without impairing the responsiveness of the server too much. As far as I understand, the configuration above allows Apache to create a maximum of 50 child processes (servers), each of which can create 10 mod_wsgi threads. Based on this, I assume I could easily avoid the numproc issue by reducing the value for MaxClients and or threads. If I reduce the number of MaxClients too much – will the more frequent creation of child processes affect the memory usage adversely? Idle threads are killed after 100 seconds of inactivity, and they are limited to a stack size of 524288 bytes. Each thread can serve up to 1000 requests, while the child process itself is also limited to 1000 requests (so this configuration probably does not make sense). Are my assumptions correct, and is there anything else about this setup which could/should be optimizied? Are there other parameters I should take into account? Kind regards, Jan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en.
