I run the mpm-itk apache2 module on my server since it’s shared between a few sites. A few rogue crawlers brought it down a few days ago and while I was checking the logs I noticed a lot more apache children processes running than I had defined. One quick look in apache2.conf and I noticed my mistake. I had configured under a different prefork module since the default config shipping with debian has no section for itk. So I added it myself:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | <IfModule mpm_itk_module> StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 8 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxClients 100 MaxRequestsPerChild 1000 </IfModule> |
Of course adjust values according to your resources.