How to Reduce High Memory Usage by Apache / HTTPD on a cPanel Server

Posted on by Seemab Saleem

If Apache / HTTPS is using bunch of memory on your server here is how you can optimize Apache on your server / VPS.

Login as root in WHM and explore to:

WHM Home >> Service Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Global Configuration

Now change value of Max Connections Per Child. Default value of Max Connections Per Child is 10,000.You can reduce this value to 1000. This will greatly reduce memory usage by Apache on your server.