Maxrequestsperchild; Maxspareservers; Minspareservers - Oracle HTTP Server B12255-01 Administrator's Manual

Limiting the Number of Processes and Connections

MaxRequestsPerChild

Controls the number of requests a child process handles before it dies. This value
should be specified again if the machine is rebooted. If you select the value to be 0,
which is the default, then the process will never die. This is applicable to UNIX
only.

MaxSpareServers

Sets the maximum number of idle child server processes. An idle process is one
which is running, but not handling a request. The parent process kills off idle child
processes that exceed the value set for this directive. The default is set at 10. This is
applicable to UNIX only.

MinSpareServers

Sets the minimum number of idle child server processes. An idle process is one
which is running but not handling a request. The parent process will create new
children at the maximum rate of one process for each second if there are fewer
processes running. The default is set at 5. This is applicable to UNIX only.
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"MaxRequestsPerChild directive" in the Apache
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Server documentation.
"MaxSpareServers directive" in the Apache Server
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documentation.
"MinSpareServers directive" in the Apache Server
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documentation.