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For more information about tuning IBM HTTP Server, refer to “Hints on Running
a High-Performance Web Server” on the Web at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/doc/v136/misc/perf.h
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IBM HTTP Server 1.3: Linux
The instructions in the following section are important when running the IBM
HTTP Server on Linux.
MaxRequestsPerChild
The MaxRequestsPerChild directive sets a limit on the number of requests that
an individual child server process handles. After the number of requests reaches
the value set for the MaxRequestsPerChild parameter, the child process dies. If
there are no known memory leaks with Apache and Apache’s libraries, set this
value to zero.
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