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|  Topic: Maxrequestworkers ? |  |  
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| jeeakooma 
 
 
 Joined: 10 Jun 2015
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 Location: USA
 
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|  Posted: Mon 29 Jun '15 17:31    Post subject: Maxrequestworkers ? |   |  
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| Hi All, 
 I support a company website on Apache with 4GB of RAM. We've had issues lately with RAM bottoming out and the site becoming slow or unreachable.
 
 I managed to be running 'top' when the site went down recently, and noticed that the number of running Apache processes had gone from around 9 to well over 70. A colleague suggested that I increase Maxrequestworkers (was at 150 at the time), which I did to 250.
 
 That seemed to reduce the incidence of RAM bottoming, however it still seems to be a problem occasionally. I've read arguments for both increasing and decreasing Maxrequestworkers - can someone tell me which direction to go?
 
 I should also mention my server is currently configured with the following numbers:
 
 timeout 300
 KeepAlive On
 MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
 KeepAliveTimeout 5
 
 Thanks for your help!
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