From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 11 19:48:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FC7106566B for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:48:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4638FC13 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:48:08 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KPT001A2OC32A00@asmtp019.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: From: Chuck Swiger To: John Almberg In-reply-to: <4AAAA820.4020407@identry.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:48:03 -0700 References: <4AA9BCF0.6040003@identry.com> <4AAA577A.8070103@identry.com> <4AAA8D60.4000300@identry.com> <237c27100909111105m4ab6fa37v1fa9019d2cd94d2@mail.gmail.com> <4AAAA820.4020407@identry.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: reducing size of apache instances X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:48:08 -0000 Hi-- On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:42 PM, John Almberg wrote: > My basic problem is at peak usage times (usually in the afternoon), > the server starts using swap space, and then response times really > bog down. Limit the MaxChildren to the number of Apache httpd's which your machine can actually handle. You may (will!) still get some backlog, but keeping the system from swapping will help responsiveness.... Regards, -- -Chuck