edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf change these to your liking: MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers 5
and do /etc/init.d/apache restart see www.apache.org for full docs on what these are, apache has excellent documentation nate Daniel E Baumann wrote: > > Hello list. I was wondering if anyone knows off hand how I could make apache > not spawn so many slave processes. When it first starts up it spawns sbout 6 > processes. The reason being is that I am running it on my own machine and it > only > has 64MB RAM. I noticed that when I accees a PHP script it spawns more > processes > and I get about 13 of them running. Besides I'm only using it for development > purposes and I don't need all those processes sucking up my memory. I am also > running GNOME so things can get sluggish after apache starts spawning all its > slaves. > > Oh yeah, please CC this back to me as I just unsubscribed from the list. > > Thanks, > > Dan > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Daniel E. Baumann > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (caution: dynamic DNS) > > Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd > http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd > > "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." > > -- Dave Olson > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]