Bug 48731

Summary:	Prefork not creating processes after 10 servers are made!
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	h4x0r1f1c
Component:	mpm_prefork	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.5-HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description h4x0r1f1c 2010-02-11 22:21:33 UTC

On my Centos 5 (32-bit) I have the following configuration.

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 10
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 100
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
</IfModule>

My problem is that Apache will not make more than 10 processes to accomodate my traffic. I have plenty of RAM for it to do so.

I've even set StartServers/MinSpareServers to 50 and MaxSpareServers to 80. Only 10 were created after restarting to apply the changes.

I have restarted Apache several times and it didn't fix my issue. I've even reinstalled it and my whole machine and setup the configuration manually again.