Chris wrote: > > I can't answer your questions, but that -m 16 has me worried. > > At around > > 40-60 megs per child, that is using up a LOT of ram. Unless > > you have a few > > gigs spare on this machine I'd stick with the default of 5 > > children until > > you have things up and running moderately well, then > > experiment with more if > > necessary.
> LOL, thats the first thing that hit me as well! Sixteen!! > Hope they got some big iron! Remember, -m = "--max-children", not the number of permantly preforked children. It's just a ceiling to protect the system from overload (4G memory). I have 4 preforked children now, and 20 similarly-sized Apache processes; none of which is really out of the ordinary. - Mark
