Sascha Schumann wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Hell it could be a ton of things (someone uploaded a nude picture
of Bridget Fonda on his server)...
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