On 04/23/03, Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> wrote: 

> So if we have a bunch of apache processes (>20) that receive about
> 50-100 requests per second we get about 15-30 new upcalls during the
> 300 msec timeout (and 750-1500 during a 15 second stall). Now typical
> web accesses are pretty much focussed on the index.html files so we can
> very quickly run out of available worker threads.
> 
> Reducing the number of apache processes, or increasing the number of
> available worker threads (-maxworkers 50) could very well help a lot in
> keeping the system running.

amazingly, this seemed to help quite a bit. i increased the number
of worker threads to 100 on each machine. after i sent my initial
plea for help to the list, i noticed that there were some log messages
about running out of worker threads. (for some reason, today is an
especially high traffic day.)

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