From a4387425e7e31ab880f8abf034eeea97fc936275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:19:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the MaxRequestsPerChild values wrt KeepAlives and
 how to tune it

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@83078 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 docs/manual/misc/perf-tuning.html | 12 ++++++------
 docs/manual/mod/core.html         |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/misc/perf-tuning.html b/docs/manual/misc/perf-tuning.html
index 956a7febbc5..46995c9eccd 100644
--- a/docs/manual/misc/perf-tuning.html
+++ b/docs/manual/misc/perf-tuning.html
@@ -209,12 +209,12 @@ consider tuning these settings.  Use the <CODE>mod_status</CODE> output
 as a guide.
 
 <P>Related to process creation is process death induced by the
-<CODE>MaxRequestsPerChild</CODE> setting.  By default this is 30, which
-is probably far too low unless your server is using a module such as
-<CODE>mod_perl</CODE> which causes children to have bloated memory
-images.  If your server is serving mostly static pages then consider
-raising this value to something like 10000.  The code is robust enough
-that this shouldn't be a problem.
+<CODE>MaxRequestsPerChild</CODE> setting.  By default this is 0, which
+means that there is no limit to the number of requests handled
+per child. If your configuration currently has this set to some
+very low number, such as 30, you may want to bump this up significantly.
+If you are running SunOS or an old version of Solaris, limit this
+to 10000 or so because of memory leaks.
 
 <P>When keep-alives are in use, children will be kept busy
 doing nothing waiting for more requests on the already open
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.html b/docs/manual/mod/core.html
index 34039be523c..899eadd8009 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.html
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.html
@@ -1998,6 +1998,10 @@ number of processes when the server load reduces.
 
 <P>This directive has no effect on Win32.
 
+<P><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG> For <EM>KeepAlive</EM> requests, only the first
+request is counted towards this limit. In effect, it changes the
+behavior to limit the number of <EM>connections</EM> per child.
+
 <P><HR>
 
 <H2><A NAME="maxspareservers">MaxSpareServers directive</A></H2>
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