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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:57:01 -0400
From:      "Simon Chang" <simonychang@gmail.com>
To:        "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Francis_Dub=E9?=" <freebsd@optiksecurite.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC
Message-ID:  <8efc42630810271157u2202e7f7xfb89a7004d072ae9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49060AE0.3000301@optiksecurite.com>
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> collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC
>
> I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes.
> Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set
> to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase it !
> During peaks all the processes are in use, we even have little drops
> sometime because there isn't enough processes to serve the requests. Our
> traffic is increasing slowly over time so i'm affraid that it'll become a
> real problem soon. Any tips on how I could deal with this situation,
> Apache's or FreBSD's side ?

On page 85 of Michael Lucas' "Absolute BSD", there is a solution to
your problem that someone else had come across before.  The solution
involves (1) increasing the PMAP_SHPGPERPROC parameter in the kernel
to a higher value and rebuilding the kernel, and (2) increasing the
amount of physical RAM to complement it.

For more details, go to

http://books.google.com/books?id=vebgS-r9fP8C&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=Michael+Lucas+collecting+pv+entries&source=web&ots=9Fl2T_Uyqi&sig=6LgchiUI5r0NTL6PaK3sxnFuIBI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

Good luck,

Simon Chang



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