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+ <p>A single control process is responsible for launching child
+ processes which listen for connections and serve them when they
+ arrive. Apache httpd always tries to maintain several <dfn>spare</dfn>
+ or idle server processes, which stand ready to serve incoming
+ requests. In this way, clients do not need to wait for a new
+ child processes to be forked before their requests can be
+ served.</p>
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+ <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#startservers">StartServers</a></code>,
+ <code class="directive"><a href="#minspareservers">MinSpareServers</a></code>,
+ <code class="directive"><a href="#maxspareservers">MaxSpareServers</a></code>, and
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code> regulate how
+ the parent process creates children to serve requests. In general,
+ Apache httpd is very self-regulating, so most sites do not need to
+ adjust these directives from their default values. Sites which
+ need to serve more than 256 simultaneous requests may need to
+ increase <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code>,
+ while sites with limited memory may need to decrease <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code> to keep the server from
+ thrashing (swapping memory to disk and back). More information
+ about tuning process creation is provided in the <a href="../misc/perf-tuning.html">performance hints</a>
+ documentation.</p>
+
+ <p>While the parent process is usually started as <code>root</code>
+ under Unix in order to bind to port 80, the child processes are
+ launched by Apache httpd as a less-privileged user. The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_unixd.html#user">User</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_unixd.html#group">Group</a></code> directives are used to set
+ the privileges of the Apache httpd child processes. The child processes
+ must be able to read all the content that will be served, but
+ should have as few privileges beyond that as possible.</p>
+
+ <p><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxconnectionsperchild">MaxConnectionsPerChild</a></code>
+ controls how frequently the server recycles processes by killing
+ old ones and launching new ones.</p>
+
+ <p>This MPM uses the <code>mpm-accept</code> mutex to serialize
+ access to incoming connections when subject to the thundering herd
+ problem (generally, when there are multiple listening sockets).
+ The implementation aspects of this mutex can be configured with the
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#mutex">Mutex</a></code> directive. The <a href="../misc/perf-tuning.html">performance hints</a>
+ documentation has additional information about this mutex.</p>
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- <p>A single control process is responsible for launching child
- processes which listen for connections and serve them when they
- arrive. Apache httpd always tries to maintain several <dfn>spare</dfn>
- or idle server processes, which stand ready to serve incoming
- requests. In this way, clients do not need to wait for a new
- child processes to be forked before their requests can be
- served.</p>
-
- <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#startservers">StartServers</a></code>,
- <code class="directive"><a href="#minspareservers">MinSpareServers</a></code>,
- <code class="directive"><a href="#maxspareservers">MaxSpareServers</a></code>, and
- <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code> regulate how
- the parent process creates children to serve requests. In general,
- Apache httpd is very self-regulating, so most sites do not need to
- adjust these directives from their default values. Sites which
- need to serve more than 256 simultaneous requests may need to
- increase <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code>,
- while sites with limited memory may need to decrease <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code> to keep the server from
- thrashing (swapping memory to disk and back). More information
- about tuning process creation is provided in the <a href="../misc/perf-tuning.html">performance hints</a>
- documentation.</p>
-
- <p>While the parent process is usually started as <code>root</code>
- under Unix in order to bind to port 80, the child processes are
- launched by Apache httpd as a less-privileged user. The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_unixd.html#user">User</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_unixd.html#group">Group</a></code> directives are used to set
- the privileges of the Apache httpd child processes. The child processes
- must be able to read all the content that will be served, but
- should have as few privileges beyond that as possible.</p>
-
- <p><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxconnectionsperchild">MaxConnectionsPerChild</a></code>
- controls how frequently the server recycles processes by killing
- old ones and launching new ones.</p>
-
- <p>This MPM uses the <code>mpm-accept</code> mutex to serialize
- access to incoming connections when subject to the thundering herd
- problem (generally, when there are multiple listening sockets).
- The implementation aspects of this mutex can be configured with the
- <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#mutex">Mutex</a></code> directive. The <a href="../misc/perf-tuning.html">performance hints</a>
- documentation has additional information about this mutex.</p>
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