> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Stoddard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 6:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Suggested direction for fixing threaded mpm
> thread startup.
>
>
> > >
> > Beside idle_server_maintenance and MaxRequestsPerChild, are
> there any
> > *realistic* scenarios that trigger this problem?
> >
>
> Do large site admins run with non-zero MaxRequestsPerChild?
> If so, then I am pretty sure this would
> be a problem for those sites that serves up content that
> ranges from small files to huge files
> (mpegs or avis for example). All it would take to hang up a
> process from exiting is for someone on
> a slow link to be downloading a large file when
> MaxRequestsPerChild is hit.
>
we don't, (in 1.3) as we have memory leaks in some of our modules,
and the easy way was just to process a couple of reqeusts and let
the process die. we run at 512.
>
> Bill
>
>
..Ian