Tuesday, September 6, 2022

How to Calculate a Perfect Apache MPM Configuration

 The Apache HTTP Server (/əˈpætʃi/ ə-PATCH-ee) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. The vast majority of Apache HTTP Server instances run on a Linux distribution, but current versions also run on Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, and a wide variety of Unix-like systems. Past versions also ran on NetWare, OS/2 and other operating systems, including ports to mainframes.

This Multi-Processing Module (MPM) implements a non-threaded, pre-forking web server. Each server process may answer incoming requests, and a parent process manages the size of the server pool. It is appropriate for sites that need to avoid threading for compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries. It is also the best MPM for isolating each request, so that a problem with a single request will not affect any other. This MPM is very self-regulating, so it is rarely necessary to adjust its configuration directives. Most important is that MaxRequestWorkers be big enough to handle as many simultaneous requests as you expect to receive, but small enough to assure that there is enough physical RAM for all processes.

How to Calculate Apache MaxRequestWorkers

 To be safe though, We’ll reserve 15% of memory for all other processes (in my case ~2,4GiB) and round up apache process size to 5MiB. 

MaxRequestWorkers = (Total RAM - Memory used for Linux, DB, etc.) / process size MaxRequestWorkers = (16384MB - 2400MB) / 5MB = 2800

<IfModule mpm_*_module>
ServerLimit (Total RAM - Memory used for Linux, DB, etc.) / process size
StartServers (Number of Cores)
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadLimit 64
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestWorkers (Total RAM - Memory used for Linux, DB, etc.) / process size
MaxConnectionsPerChild 1000
</IfModule>


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