What values to use for FastCGI maxrequests, maxspare, minspare, maxchildren?
Don't forget to coordinate your fcgi settings with your apache worker settings. I usually keep more apache workers around than fcgi workers... they are lighter weight and will wait for an available fcgi worker to free up to process the request if the concurrency reaches higher than my maxspare.
I'm running a Django app using FastCGI and lighttpd.
Can somebody explain me what I should consider when deciding what value to use for maxrequests, maxspare, minspare, maxchildren?
These options are not too well documented, but seem quite important.
Don't just tell me what they do; I want to understand what implications they have and how I should decide on what values to use.
Thanks.