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by toast0 121 days ago
> this had resulted in Apache spawning hundreds of instances, bringing the whole machine to a halt.

Ugh, such a weird design. At least my experience has been you are better off setting Apache to always run the same number of instances, and tuning that number as appropriate rather than having the instance count fluctuate under load.
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lloydatkinson 121 days ago
Yeah, I did suggest nginx in the past for this project and I think I'll consider it after this saga. For now I've set pretty low limits on Apache.
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toast0 121 days ago
Apache itself is fine. Just need to set MaxClients/MaxRequestWorkers equal to StartServers and MaxSpareThreads (assuming prefork), so that all the forking happens at start up. Similar things for other mpms, I assume.
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