set MaxClients 32, SA-457

I run a performance test and run 100 parallel requests.
The machine swapped and crashed. I set a limit of 32 running scripts.

diff --git a/web/conf/apache2.0/irspy.conf b/web/conf/apache2.0/irspy.conf
index efa8d5b..e735586 100644 (file)
--- a/web/conf/apache2.0/irspy.conf
+++ b/web/conf/apache2.0/irspy.conf
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@
 # For debian & unbuntu: please read irspy/README for a list of depending packages
 #
 
+#
+# an irspy toroid process takes up to 90MB for each request
+# 90*32 => 3GB RAM
+#
+MaxClients 32
+
 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName irspy.indexdata.com
     ServerAlias irspy2.indexdata.com irspy irspy-dev.indexdata.com
@@ -53,6 +59,7 @@
     # map /toroid to CGI script irspy-toroid.cgi
     ScriptAlias /toroid/records        /home/indexdata/irspy-toroid/irspy-toroid.cgi 
 
+
     # legacy ruby daemon
     #ProxyPass         /toroid/ http://localhost:12367/
     #ProxyPassReverse  /toroid/ http://localhost:12367/
@@ -62,6 +69,5 @@
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml
       SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
     </Location>
-
 </VirtualHost>