How to calculate the number of sockets opened by an Apache Webagent to the Policy Server when Apache running in Prefork mode?
It is interesting for capacity planning purpose to know how much socket a webagent running on an apache web server.
Depending on the running mode of the Apache Webagent server (worker/prefork) the caluclation will be different. Apache running in Prefork more is multi-process /single-thread as compare to Apache in worker mode which is multi-process /multi-thread.
In Prefork , you can set maxsocketsperport =1 and minsocketsperport = 1.
As as each process uses only a single thread to communicate with the SiteMinder Policy Server, only one socket is required.
For your socket calculation you should use the following method.