From: Aaron Bannert <aaron@apache.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:12:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Improve the comments on the fd limits.
X-Git-Tag: 2.0.40~220
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e1899319daad43a08425585ad31490d07bdab39;p=apache

Improve the comments on the fd limits.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@96069 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/support/apachectl.in b/support/apachectl.in
index 356ca3c326..a0d21ea7dc 100644
--- a/support/apachectl.in
+++ b/support/apachectl.in
@@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ LYNX="lynx -dump"
 # have one, then status and fullstatus will not work.
 STATUSURL="http://localhost:@PORT@/server-status"
 #
-# the command to increase the limit on open file descriptors
+# Set this variable to a command that increases the maximum
+# number of file descriptors allowed per child process. This is
+# critical for configurations that use many file descriptors,
+# such as mass vhosting, or a multithreaded server.
 ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="@APACHECTL_ULIMIT@"
 # --------------------                              --------------------
 # ||||||||||||||||||||   END CONFIGURATION SECTION  ||||||||||||||||||||
 
+# Set the maximum number of file descriptors allowed per child process.
 if [ "x$ULIMIT_MAX_FILES" != "x" ] ; then
     $ULIMIT_MAX_FILES
 fi