MaxServers

he maximum number of servers that will be spawned to handle page requests.

Synopsis

The value is expected to be a positive integer.  The default is 10.

Scope

This directive is only available for use in the global (interchange.cfg) configuration file, and will affect all websites running under the Interchange installation.  It will not work in a website's local (catalog.cfg) configuration file. 

Description

The maximum number of servers that will be spawned to handle page requests.  If MaxServers requests are pending then further requests will be queued until the number of active servers drops below the requested level.

The number of requests that can be queued is defined by the operating system.  Usually five requests can be pending at any one time.  Further simultaneous requests (above MaxServers and above the OS's pending request limit) will be denied by the operating system.

The number of available servers will be recounted, with the count based upon the number of PID files, during the HouseKeeping routine.