Commit 99aede8c authored by pcs's avatar pcs
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Document the fact that StartServers, MaxSpareServers and MinSpareServers 

have no effect on Unix. Also that ThreadsPerChild has no effect on
Unix.


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docs/manual/mod/core.html

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@@ -1634,6 +1634,10 @@ process will kill off the excess processes.<P> 
Tuning of this parameter should only be necessary on very busy sites.

Setting this parameter to a large number is almost always a bad idea.<P>



This directive has no effect on Microsoft Windows.



<P>



See also <A HREF="#minspareservers">MinSpareServers</A> and

<A HREF="#startservers">StartServers</A>.<P><HR>
@@ -1664,6 +1668,10 @@ process creates new children at a maximum rate of 1 per second.<P> 
Tuning of this parameter should only be necessary on very busy sites.

Setting this parameter to a large number is almost always a bad idea.<P>



This directive has no effect on Microsoft Windows.



<P>



See also <A HREF="#maxspareservers">MaxSpareServers</A> and

<A HREF="#startservers">StartServers</A>.<P><HR>
@@ -2462,10 +2470,15 @@ The StartServers directive sets the number of child server processes created 
on startup. As the number of processes is dynamically controlled depending

on the load, there is usually little reason to adjust this parameter.<P>



<P>When running with Microsoft Windows, this directive sets the total

   number of child processes running. Since the Windows version of Apache

   is multithreaded, one processes handles all the requests. The rest are

   held in reserve until the main processes dies.

<P>When running under Microsoft Windows, this directive has no effect.

   There is always one child which handles all requests. Within the

   child requests are handled by separate threads. The

   <A HREF="#threadsperchild">ThreadsPerChild</A> directive controls 

   the maximum number of child threads handling requests, which will

   have a similar effect to the setting of <SAMP>StartServers</SAMP>

   on Unix.



<P>



See also <A HREF="#minspareservers">MinSpareServers</A> and

<A HREF="#maxspareservers">MaxSpareServers</A>.<P><HR>
@@ -2495,6 +2508,10 @@ with Windows 
   sure and set this number high enough for your site if you get a lot of

   hits.



<P>



This directive has no effect on Unix systems.



<P>See also <A HREF="#startservers">StartServers</A> and <A

   HREF="#maxrequestsperchild">MaxRequestsPerChild</A>.</P>