On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> At 11:33 AM -0300 9/20/01, Daniel Abad wrote:
> >Is it really a problem??? Or just warning?
> >
> >[Thu Sep 20 00:28:53 2001] [error] server reached MaxClients setting,
> >consider raising the MaxClients setting
> >
>
> No doubt, you are getting hammered by Nimba causing your server to
> spawn extra processes to handle the increased load... So actually,
> it's a *good* thing since it's preventing the attack from
> consuming all your server resources.
Or he is serving large files to slow clients, so that a lot
of Apache processes are blocked for a longer period of time.
That happens regularly to www.php.net with MaxClients 256.
One way to fix that is recompiling Apache to handle even more
clients, but that increases the overall RAM usage of course.
So we usually just choose the lazy route, install an
additional thttpd and redirect requests as appropiate.
- Sascha Experience IRCG
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