Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition By Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour
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Chapter 18. Apache Configuration
MaxRequestsPerChild
MaxRequestsPerChild number
[ server config ]
Specifies how many requests a slave process may handle for a client during its life. If set to 0, the slave process may handle an unlimited number of connections; the default is 0. For example:
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
This allows the slave process to handle up to 1000 requests per connection before the process dies, and the client is forced to reconnect to the server.