how many instances of apache started…

this two days we was in terrible war with apache instances, server was not so powuerfull (516 RAM) so we had a lot of problems with num of auto started servers.

so limit of auto creating apaches by default is 256, we did decrease it up to 36. and decreased also some other potentials…

12 MaxKeepAliveRequests 15
13 KeepAliveTimeout 4
14
15 MinSpareServers 5
16 MaxSpareServers 12
17 StartServers 12
18
19 ServerLimit 64
20 MaxClients 32
21 MaxRequestsPerChild 16

for development it not big hurt, but it keeps your server up and running. And one note short command to see how many instances you have (this note i writing especially for me)

ps aux | grep apache| grep -v grep | wc -l

thanks a lot to Hovik and Arman for support