[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[JF Mezei]

Here is the Apache config (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf) with reg server
process pool :

## Server-pool size regulation.  Rather than making you guess how many
## server processes you need, Apache dynamically adapts to the load it
## sees --- that is, it tries to maintain enough server processes to
## handle the current load, plus a few spare servers to handle transient
## load spikes (e.g., multiple simultaneous requests from a single
## Netscape browser).
##
## It does this by periodically checking how many servers are waiting
## for a request.  If there are fewer than MinSpareServers, it creates
## a new spare.  If there are more than MaxSpareServers, some of the
## spares die off.  The default values are probably OK for most sites.
##
MinSpareServers 8
MaxSpareServers 64
##
## Number of servers to start initially --- should be a reasonable ballpark
## figure.
##
StartServers 1



The one area where Apache may use facilities for which VMS is not well
designed is the master process handing an incoming TCP request to a
different process. I recall some discussions about that on c.o.v. a few
years back.