graceful terminations in a much better way. Some of the improvements are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Allow the use of all the scoreboard slots up to
- <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#serverlimit">ServerLimit</a></code>.</li>
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#serverlimit">ServerLimit</a></code>.
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code> and
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#threadsperchild">ThreadsPerChild</a></code> are used
+ to limit the amount of active processes, meanwhile
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#serverlimit">ServerLimit</a></code>
+ takes also into account the ones doing a graceful
+ close to allow extra slots when needed. The idea is to use
+ <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mpm_common.html#serverlimit">ServerLimit</a></code> to instruct httpd
+ about how many overall processes are tolerated before impacting
+ the system resources.
+ </li>
<li>Force gracefully finishing processes to close their
connections in keep-alive state.</li>
<li>During graceful shutdown, if there are more running worker threads