Making Apache run lighter on slicehost

I run more than 10 sites on a 256mb slice on slicehost - all php, mostly wordpress sites. They are rarely visited sites with the most popular one getting about 300 hits a day.

By changing the mpm_prefork_module I was able to get my slice to run much lighter on memory.

# default

    StartServers                  5
    MinSpareServers           5
    MaxSpareServers          10
    MaxClients                    150
    MaxRequestsPerChild   0


# to this - thanks to http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=2099#Item_2

StartServers       3
MinSpareServers    3
MaxSpareServers    3
ServerLimit        50
MaxClients         50
MaxRequestsPerChild  1000

Here’s the difference in my memory:

Before:

Picture 1.png

After:
Picture 2.png

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