Some questions: - are there any interesting entries in the apache error log? - anything interesting in syslog, kern.log, ...? - are you using php/cgi/... or just static content? If you use php, what memory_limit have you set? - what other modules do you use that are not enabled by default? - how much memory+swap does your box have? How much of this is used by other processes?
If your Apache does something quite memory consuming, 150 processes are quite a lot (and maxclients 150 means that you can have up to 150 processes). Maybe you are just running out of memory and the oom-killer goes berzerk (as it usually does). Cheers, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]