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-rw-r--r--support/apachectl.in6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/support/apachectl.in b/support/apachectl.in
index 356ca3c326..a0d21ea7dc 100644
--- a/support/apachectl.in
+++ b/support/apachectl.in
@@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ LYNX="lynx -dump"
# have one, then status and fullstatus will not work.
STATUSURL="http://localhost:@PORT@/server-status"
#
-# the command to increase the limit on open file descriptors
+# Set this variable to a command that increases the maximum
+# number of file descriptors allowed per child process. This is
+# critical for configurations that use many file descriptors,
+# such as mass vhosting, or a multithreaded server.
ULIMIT_MAX_FILES="@APACHECTL_ULIMIT@"
# -------------------- --------------------
# |||||||||||||||||||| END CONFIGURATION SECTION ||||||||||||||||||||
+# Set the maximum number of file descriptors allowed per child process.
if [ "x$ULIMIT_MAX_FILES" != "x" ] ; then
$ULIMIT_MAX_FILES
fi