In the process of tuning a server for a client, I was playing with the MaxClients directive. The normal finessing of having plenty of clients balanced by having enough CPU and memory to handle them. I couldn't get my configuration changes to work how I wanted and kept reaching my MaxClients within minutes, and was wondering if I had changed the wrong stanza, i.e. threaded rather than prefork even though I was 100% sure it was running prefork...
