Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, I'm new to all of this!
I have prefork installed on a ubuntu server which I confirmed by running
aptitude search apache2-mpm-
Which gave me
p apache2-mpm-event - Apache HTTP Server - event driven model
p apache2-mpm-itk - multiuser MPM for Apache 2.2
i A apache2-mpm-prefork - Apache HTTP Server - traditional non-threaded model
p apache2-mpm-worker - Apache HTTP Server - high speed threaded model
root@redflagwiki:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
root@redflagwiki:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# aptitude search apache2-mpm-
p apache2-mpm-event - Apache HTTP Server - event driven model
p apache2-mpm-itk - multiuser MPM for Apache 2.2
i A apache2-mpm-prefork - Apache HTTP Server - traditional non-threaded model
p apache2-mpm-worker - Apache HTTP Server - high speed threaded model
In my apache2.conf file I have
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
but this seems to being ignored as the server is allowing apache to run 200+ times until it dies and then has to be restarted.
Any ideas?