Slow clients do not increase CPU load, they tie up child processes. I've heard nothing about having too few child processes or about excessive context switches due to having too many child processes.

Slow clients hold the process so you'll have to open a new process to serve someone else which DOES increase the cpu/ram usage as explained before.

We've been explaining that different sites have different bottlenecks. Why do you keep ignoring the specifics that apply to PerlMonks and revert to talking about what would help other sites?

I'm not ignoring the specifics that apply to PerlMonks

If you take the time to read the link provided by Argel in the post above, you would have seen tye talking about having to REAP Apache children to free-up memory which are probably caused by slow clients holding up children for long time which makes it necessary to start a new process.

Faster page delivery means less process have to run together which will lower CPU load ... that's my point of view.

In reply to Re^9: Enhancing Speed by ahmad
in thread Enhancing Speed by ahmad

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