in reply to (OT) Configuring Apache child distribution

Essentailly, I don't like children getting over used.

In this context, you should. The FIFO behavior is highly desirable for mod_perl. The more it reuses the same child processes, the fewer processes need to be run, and that saves you RAM.

Maybe you were thinking that a process might be handling more than one request at once? That never happens. A process will only accept a new request when the previous one is completely finished.

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