[Slashcode-general] Limiting sie of Apache Children

[Brian A. <br...@ta...>]

I just noticed that someone submitted this as a bug on SourceForge
and I remember that someone else once asked about this on
the mailing lists.

So you are finding with Bender that over time your caches
are growing large and that they become larger then
what you want them to. Instead of worrying about
Maxrequests per httpd child, worry about
the memory footprint of the httpd child. There is a CPAN module
you can install called Apache::SizeLimit that you
can use to restrict the size of your Apache processes. Just
be careful to not set this to low. If you do you will
cause Apache to constantly fork off new children.

If you are interested in keeping an eye on this 
yourself, look at using the module Apache::VMonitor.
	-Brian