Dear BipinDas, Under these loads i would suggest you to try Worker-MPM model. Because in prefork whatever you do, if you get 500 requests which are being served *simultaneously*, it would create 500 processes!! Its a one process per request model. So at higher load you would definitely run out of resources which is causing your server to hang perhaps. And the details you have provided are quite normal for your configuration. I get even more than that in my test scenarios!. The problem might be because of some peak load times which consumes your resources.
Also, is there any chances of number of *simultaneous* clients to go above 251 at peak loads? If so, try increasing that. (though i personally wont prefer prefork in high load scenarios) Regards Prasanna Ram On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:30 PM, BipinDas-Gmail <bipink...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Friends. > > > > One of my Webserver running with following configurations. > > Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz > > Memory : 4Giga > > Apache : 2.2.3 (Installed from Binary) > > MPM : Prefork > > > > Some of output from the server is as follows (Almost All Time ….). > > > > ps -ef | grep httpd | wc -l == 45 > > netstat -tn | wc -l == 1221 > > netstat -tn | grep ESTABLISHED | grep 443 | wc -l == 29 > > > > My Prefork configuration is as follows... > > > > <IfModule prefork.c> > > StartServers 8 > > MinSpareServers 5 > > MaxSpareServers 20 > > ServerLimit 251 > > MaxClients 251 > > MaxRequestsPerChild 4000 > > </IfModule> > > > > My problem is sometimes server is shoot up with heavy load and hangs. I > need to restart the Apache to settle down the load to normal. > > This is Moodle installed server. Students uploading Assignments, checking > for timetable, will attend Quiz and online exams. MySQL is > > also running in the same server. I suspect Apache is causing the load > problem. > > > > Please recommend a perfect Prefork configuration on the above scenario. > > > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > *Greetings ....* > > BipinDas > > +966543680643 > > >
