Message in apache logs "you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers "

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Issue

The following message are showing up in the Apache logs.

[Tue Sep 12 07:13:32 2008] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 16 children, there are 3 idle, and 82 total children
[Tue Sep 12 07:13:41 2008] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 0 idle, and 83 total children

Should they be of concern ?

Environment

  • Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Apache httpd
    • 2.0.x
    • 2.2.x

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