httpd.conf MaxClients directive?

michaelsanford

Translator, Web Developer
In Apache 1.3.26's httpd.conf what effect does setting the MaxClients (~line 155) have, exactly?

Does a client refer to user, or a connection. If I have this value set to 1, and I have a single user connecting, can they still make multiple simultaneous connections to load the page faster, or not?

Might sound obvious since its called "MaxClients" but it's a little ambiguous to me. I say this because the wording is "Limit of total number of servers running", but doesn't httpd launch a new process for each request...?
 
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