Re: [Slashcode-general] Limiting sie of Apache Children

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 09:13 -0700 2001.04.21, Brian Aker wrote:
>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, or someone, can this be written up into 1-2 paragraphs for inclusion
in INSTALL?  And further, can someone write up an explanation of how to
limit MySQL number of threads/processes?

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