: What memory size per apache process is ridiculous? (closetnoc, yes I come with interesting and maybe ridiculous questions, but...) I have a question. I'm trying to make my server run as wonderful

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(closetnoc, yes I come with interesting and maybe ridiculous questions, but...)

I have a question.

I'm trying to make my server run as wonderful as possible and I'm in the back-end. Ever since I optimized my PHP code, I managed to get my apache process (program memory use) size down from 80+ MB to around 45 MB.

But my question is, in a standard cPanel setup with a simple apache 2.2 server running in prefork mode, what memory size per apache process would be considered ideal and what memory size would be considered ridiculous? I'm looking for the perfect range

I ask because my server has 8 GB ram with 10 GB swap available and if I can make good use of the ram (by running as many apache processes as possible) whilst leaving some memory free for dirty data and touching nothing of swap, then I'm golden.

At this time I cannot use any mode other than prefork because I have my own apache module loaded (which used only the libraries presented to me when I crafted my code from the template generated from executing apxs -g), and also I use mod_php5 as well as mod_ruid2.

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