Re: On memory consumption - request for comments

2011/2/11 Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]>:
> On Friday, February 11, 2011 17:20:07 Perrin Harkins wrote:
>> These days I like to use a reasonable MaxRequestsPerChild
>
> same here. I try to figure out the worst case before going life. Then
> MaxClients can be set accordingly. Plus a reasonable MaxRequestsPerChild and
> you are done.
>
> Also, these days RAM is not the bottleneck as it was 10 years ago. In a
> project I had a 8GB box that hit the CPU limit at 250 active parallel
> requests. But it used only slightly more than half of the RAM.

I don't think there is a danger of running into swap with today's
environments, so I wondered about why Sizelimit deals with swap
metrics.  If you do run into swap with a box with 8 gigs of ram, swap
will probably not save you, as you'll be swapping out large processes.
 I keep my MaxRequestsPerChild low also, but also like to use
SizeLimit to cap the maximum process size.