11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
9:21 a.m.
So decreasing the apache processes can help? For me it makes sense to increase it in order to process cuncurrently as much users as i can
Not always. It's true that more processes can handle more requests depending on where the bottleneck is. But think like this, if you add too many apache processes and run into memory problems then your processes begin to swap. And that's the real problem as your disks start trashing. Better to leave the incoming connection in your OS's ip network queue rather than force open another apache you haven't room for. That may seem odd (to leave it queued) but at least the running apaches can handle them faster if memory swapping isn't going on. --AjK