I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with apache 2.4.37 (with mpm_prefork) and php provided with OS. There is also newest ISP done based on Perfect Server tutorial. I have 15GB of RAM and 4x 2,3GHz CPU. I would like to adjust settings: a) from /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf Code: <IfModule mpm_prefork_module> ServerLimit 400 StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 MaxRequestWorkers 400 MaxConnectionsPerChild 0 </IfModule> and also from /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf: Code: pm = dynamic pm.max_children = 5 pm.start_servers = 2 pm.min_spare_servers = 1 pm.max_spare_servers = 3 I have used this script: Code: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/richardforth/apache2buddy/master/apache2buddy.pl | perl to determine values like RAM used by php-fpm and apache: Code: [ -- ] PHP-FPM Detected => Using 2390.74 MB of memory. [ -- ] apache2 is currently using 1293.74 MB of memory. [ -- ] The smallest apache process is using 10.92 MB of memory [ -- ] The average apache process is using 19.52 MB of memory [ -- ] The largest apache process is using 20.54 MB of memory I have found somewhere on the Internet that systems which have more than 4GB of RAM should have: StartServers 25 MinSpareServers 25 PS There are also two another valuable commands to determine ram utilization by apache: Code: ps -C apache2 -o rss | sed '1d' | awk '{x += $1}END{print "Total Memory usage: " x}' ps -C apache2 -o rss | sed '1d' | awk '{x += $1;y += 1}END{print "Total Memory usage (KB): " x "\nAverage memory usage (KB): "(x/y)}'