On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:02, Kyle Dawkins wrote:
>  You must, at ALL times, keep your machine from swapping out Apache
>  children.

Good advice.  To go a step firther, this is all covered in detail in the
mod_perl documentation here:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Performance_Tuning_by_Tweaking_Apache
_Configuration

In addition, I would suggest using a much higher MaxRequestsPerChild
setting, but using something like Apache::SizeLimit to keep the size of
the processes from growing indefinitely.

- Perrin