Re: [us...@httpd] How does Prefork work?

2009-05-29 Thread CrystalCracker
Ok, now given that I have the following settings for prefork: StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients250 MaxRequestsPerChild 1 Is the following setting for Tomcat AJP Connector appropriate? What I wanna know is how the apache processes work

Re: [us...@httpd] How does Prefork work?

2009-05-28 Thread CrystalCracker
>>MaxClients at 250 means that potentially 250 httpd processes can be >>running at once. Do you have the memory to support that many without >>swapping? Swapping usually ends up killing a system, especially if >>it's already handling a lot of disk i/o. Regarding MaxClients at 250, the only

Re: [us...@httpd] How does Prefork work?

2009-05-28 Thread CrystalCracker
(ps -ef | grep httpd), average is about 40 threads and goes upto 70 at the peak. Does the above setting sounds resonable? Doug Bell-4 wrote: > > On May 27, 2009, at 11:14 PM, CrystalCracker wrote: > >> >> Can anyone explain me how exactly prefork works? >> >>

[us...@httpd] How does Prefork work?

2009-05-27 Thread CrystalCracker
Can anyone explain me how exactly prefork works? StartServers 2 MaxClients 150 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadsPerChild 25 ServerLimit 16 I think I got confused between the terms - server, process and thread. If prefork is a single thread process, what does that ThreadsPerChild mean