Having several network websites that have around 100.000 unique visitors and hits 300.000 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 Dual Xeon processor and 4Gb RAM (used together with my pal). By default, it using Apache 1.3 web server and MySQL 5 for database server. 2 weeks ago, Apache were restarted almost 30 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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