by configuration or MPM design.</p>
</note>
+ <note><title>Connection pooling with prefork MPM</title>
+ <p>With the prefork MPM, connections to backends are not pooled
+ (each child process handles one connection at a time). The
+ <code>acquire</code> and <code>ttl</code> parameters, which
+ control connection pool behavior, have no effect when using
+ prefork. The <code>min</code>, <code>smax</code>, and
+ <code>hmax</code> pool sizing parameters are also ignored.</p>
+ </note>
+
<p>Use the <code>ttl</code> parameter to set an optional
time to live; connections which have been unused for at least
<code>ttl</code> seconds will be closed. <code>ttl</code> can be used