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matt
Asked: 2009-05-28 05:57:24 +0800 CST

apache prefork/mod_wsgi spawning processes beyond configuration

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in a production environment running nginx reversing back to apache mpm-prefork/mod_wsgi, im seeing 90 apache child processes, when i would expect that 40 would be the maximum, as configured below. the configuration/setup is nothing exciting:

  1. nginx is reverse proxying to apache via proxy_pass, and serving static media
  2. apache only serves dynamic requests

relevant nginx config:

worker_processes 15;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

keepalive_timeout 10;

relevant apache config:

KeepAlive Off
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 
KeepAliveTimeout 15

<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
    StartServers        20
    MinSpareServers     7      
    MaxSpareServers     10
    MaxClients          200
    MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

mod_wsgi config, where webapp is the name of the process:

WSGIDaemonProcess webapp user=www group=users threads=1 processes=40

am i missing something?

performance apache-2.2 web-server python

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I think Graham Dumpleton may have answered your question in his blog recently.

    Edit

    I guess I should point out that his blog post is mostly about mod_python, but I think his explanation of how prefork works may give you some insight as to where the additional processes are coming from.

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