How do MaxSpareServers work in Apache?
- by John Hunt
I've scoured the web but I can't find out what MaxSpareServers are in Apache MPM prefork..
The MaxSpareServers directive sets the desired maximum number of idle child server processes. An idle process is one which is not handling a request. If there are more than MaxSpareServers idle, then the parent process will kill off the excess processes.
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