I would make MaxRequestsPerChild nonzero, something like 3000 to 10000. Even Yahoo, which employs the creator of PHP and several Apache committers, restarts the

I would make MaxRequestsPerChild nonzero, something like 3000 to 10000. Even Yahoo, which employs the creator of PHP and several Apache committers, restarts their Apache children every 8 hours. Otherwise you are making yourself vulnerable to memory leaks or bugs that might take weeks to manifest. I would also bump up MaxClients. If it's too low you will refuse connections under load and never know it -- there will be no records in your logs.