MaxRequestsPerChild Directive in Apache 2.2

One of our servers run on apache which has mpm_winnt_module enabled. I was seeing memory consumption going up by time. Recently I checked httpd.conf to see it had directives configured correctly and discovered

MaxRequestsPerChild   0

Again based on Apache documentation setting MaxRequestsPerChild to a non-zero value limits the amount of memory that process can consume by (accidental) memory leakage.

I have changed that line to:

MaxRequestsPerChild   1000

This seems to stop memory leakage for our case. I will update this post if I see something else here on that configuration file.