Hi all

I'm dealing with a new problem for me. I'm running an Apache web server with 
PHP and a MySQL database backend. The apps are doing fine so far and up until 
recently everything worked just fine.

About a few days ago, a strange phenomenon started. I normally have around 20-
50 Apache processes running. I now see the number of processes jumping up to 
400 within minutes. The MaxClients set to 400 and the Apache is stopping to 
respond - the users can't access the page anymore.

I'm using Apache httpd server version 2.0.59 and PHP 4.4.6. 

httpd.conf says:
 KeepAlice On
 MaxKeepAliveRequests 10
 KeepAliveTimeout 10
 MinSpareServers 5
 MaxSpareServers 10
 StartServers 5
 ServerLimit 500
 MaxClients 400
 MaxRequestsPerChild 500

When I check with 'netstat -an' on my Linux box I see lets of "TIME_WAIT" 
connections. Might this have to do something with the problem?

Any ideas or approaches on how to figure out what might cause the problem? Am I 
dealing with some sort of DoS?

thx for the help
reto


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