From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 11:20:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06EA16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:20:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB5643D1F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:20:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id j1ABKWDl011056 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:20:32 +0200 Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 10 Feb 05 13:20:33 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 10 Feb 05 13:20:10 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (192.168.1.2) by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 10 Feb 05 13:20:08 +0300 Message-ID: <420B436A.8060202@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:20:10 +0200 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Apache2 with worker MPM on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:20:35 -0000 Hello! We are running a fairly busy website with Apache 2.0.52. At times a lot of httpd processes gather up and consume all the available memory, which slows down web access. Apache2 was installed from ports and defaulted to prefork MPM. I read from the Apache performance tuning document that worker MPM may perform better on busy websites and has smaller memory footprint. Is it safe to run Apache2 with worker MPM on FreeBSD 5.3? There must be a reason why prefork is the default... --=20 Toomas Aas -------------------------------------------------------- |arvutiv=F5rgu peaspetsialist | head specialist on computer networks| |Tartu Linnakantselei | Tartu City Office | ----------------------------------------------------- +372 736 1274