Re: web app gets max processes about every three months

# MaxRequestsPerChild: the number of requests each child process is
# allowed to process before the child dies.  The child will exit so
# as to avoid problems after prolonged use when Apache (and maybe the
# libraries it uses) leak memory or other resources.

You could try to set the "MaxRequestsPerChild" parameter (httpd.conf) to eg. 1000.

In conjunction with:
KeepAlive
MaxKeepAliveRequest
KeepAliveTimeout
MinSpareServers
MaxSpareServers
MaxClients

Intensive tuning with these parameters solved our similar (??) Apache<->Oracle- processes problems.

"Joel Rees" <jreesmf_at_mac.com> wrote in message news:f0d5086.0208050239.31d4911b_at_posting.google.com...
> Wrote a question about this about six weeks back, still looking for
> answers.
>
> We have a web app, Oracle on a dedicated machine, php and apache on a
> separate machine, and three times in the past eight months, our php
> logs tell us that oracle has got maximum processes allocated, and it
> stays there until the customer resets the Oracle server. Host system
> on each machine is MSW2k.
Received on Wed Aug 07 2002 - 11:47:04 CEST