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Reply to topic   Topic: Process exiting because it reached MaxRequestsPerChild
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zantoro



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PostPosted: Wed 15 Jul '09 13:24    Post subject: Process exiting because it reached MaxRequestsPerChild Reply with quote

Hello,
we have set the MaxRequestsPerChild to 250 on our server to prevent server overload.
What are the downsides of this setting?
What happens to the website availability when the child is flushed as the MaxRequestsPerChild limit is reached (see the title)?

Thanks,
Roberto.
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James Blond
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Wed 22 Jul '09 17:43    Post subject: Reply with quote

MaxRequestsPerChild shall prevent of memory leaks and shall kill unused child process when the traffic goes back.
Since windows has only one child apache will restart after reaching that limit. For windows it is recommend to leave that value to 0 so it runs unlimited.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestsperchild


Memory leaks under windows are only with third party module like PHP extension. But than it is recommend to separate PHP from apache with fcgid. (only if apache crashes)
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