Having several network websites that have around 200.000 unique visitors and hits 400.000 page views per day could be a dream for webmaster. But it is not. That’s killing me!
Right now I’m using dedicated server with 8-cores Xeon processor and 8Gb RAM. By default, it using Apache 1.3 web server and MySQL 5 for database server. 2 weeks ago, Apache were restarted almost 10 times a day. From Apache logs, it shows that MaxClient were reach it’s limit.
[root@roninbox ]#tail -f /etc/httpd/logs/error_log
[Wed Oct 8 19:26:56 2008] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting.
[root@roninbox ]# ps aux | grep httpd | wc -l
360
[root@roninbox ]# lsof -u nobody | wc -l
2505
From default httpd.conf I saw that MaxClients value still sets on 150. Let’s see what it means…
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