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@@ -171,6 +171,18 @@ The possible keywords and their descriptions are as follows:
will be created. With other words, only MaxClients clients can be
connected to Tinyproxy simultaneously.
+*MinSpareServers*::
+*MaxSpareServers*::
+
+ Tinyproxy always keeps a certain number of idle child processes
+ so that it can handle new incoming client requests quickly.
+ `MinSpareServer` and `MaxSpareServers` control the lower and upper
+ limits for the number of spare processes. I.e. when the number of
+ spare servers drops below `MinSpareServers` then Tinyproxy will
+ start forking new spare processes in the background and when the
+ number of spare processes exceeds `MaxSpareServers` then Tinyproxy
+ will kill off extra processes.
+
BUGS
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