On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:49:17PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > How do you see MaxClients changing dynamically/automatically? If you're > considering raising it, wouldn't there still need to be a way for the What I mean was (taken from Sun Web Server's approach) : * Apache Read the configuration and look for MaxClients. a) If found use it. b) If not found then apache tries to calculate it based on number of CPUs, available memory, Swap availability and architecture. A message can be logged by Apache what configuration value it determined and it is using.
This way an advance user can always tell Apache what should be MaxClients value and for novice users who doesn't know how much to set this value, apache can take a decision. Regards, Basant.
