in depth ist der zwar weniger aber mal der erste den ich auf die schnelle in meinen bookmarks finden konnte
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/...amp_tuning.htmledit: falls es wenn interessiert:
MaxClients
Apache, when it starts up creates a number of HTTPD processes to handle requests for web pages. The creation and deletion of these are controlled by the root httpd process and are dependent on the load on the web server and other parameters in httpd.conf.
MaxClients sets the hard limit on the number of httpd processes that a machine can create. This is to stop a heavily loaded web server from consuming more and more resources from the host machine and gives you a worst case scenario of the appetite of your machine's web server. The default value is 150
MaxRequestsPerChild
When there are more requests than processes the server will spawn new child processes to handle the requests (assuming, of course the hard limit of MaxClients has not been reached). In the normal course of events, a child process handles a number of requests and then dies. If this value is set to 0 it means the child never dies.
Having child processes that never die will reduce child process creation overhead but if the process never dies and there are memory leaks then these leaks will continue until the web server is rebooted. It should be noted that there are no known leaks with apache 1.3 but the re might be some in system libraries. The default value for this is 30
MinSpareServers
You can set the minimum number of child processes that should be running also. If fewer of these processes are running then new processes are created until this number is reached. Do NOT have this number higher than MaxSpareServers. Setting this too high and you will be wasting resources unnecessarily. Too low and you will be using a lot of resources to fork new child processes. The default value for this parameter is 5
MaxSpareServers
This number determines the maximum number of child httpd processes that are allowed to exist on the machine. If this number is high and the http load is low then the machine will be using up computer resources needlessly. Having this as a high value on a low specification machine is also a bad idea and will give your apache a big footprint (remember this is important is you are running other components on the same machine). The default value for this is 10
MaxKeepAliveRequests
Persistent connections are achieved via the KeepAlive directive, it allows multiple sequential HTTP requests to be made by a client on the same connection if the client indicates that it is capable and would like to do it. To enable this feature use the directive KeepAlive on. Having KeepAlive enabled allows a much more rapid dialog between a client and the server to take place, at the cost of preventing the attached server process from handling any other requests until the client disconnects.
KeepAliveTimeout
To deal with this issue, there is a corresponding KeepAliveTimeout directive. This directive specifies the amount of time an Apache process will wait for a client to issue another HTTP request before closing the connection and returning to general service. Regardless of the time-out value, persistent connections will also automatically terminate when the number of requests specified by MaxKeepAliveRequests is reached.