I can't imagine that RAM is the problem, nor the CPU. It's a dual core machine with 5GB of RAM that gets MAYBE a few hundred unique hits a month between ALL the web sites on it. It did this once before I even had most of the web sites on it, it only had one or two on it the first time it happened and was getting maybe a dozen hits a month. -- Dan
http://www.moonlightrpg.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/danbunyard http://www.danodemano.com http://www.dansrandomness.com http://www.danandshelley.com This is not a problem that requires infinite wisdom, Benj. This is a problem that requires enough neural organization to qualify as a vertebrate, apparently a stretch for some folks these days. ~Cecil Adams. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 20:42, Reese <howel...@inkworkswell.com> wrote: > On 26-Jan-10 20:28, Dan Bunyard wrote: > >> This has happened twice now and it's a little bit concerning to me. I have >> a >> Fedora 12 server with 5GB of RAM that I use to host a few small web sites >> of >> mine. As I mentioned, this happened once before. I tried to load one of my >> web sites today and it took FOREVER (as in the 10s of minutes) to load. I >> SSHed into the box and found the load average around 100 (dual core >> machine). Since this was the second time it had happened, I knew that it >> was >> Apache causing it. So I restarted the Apache service and everything >> returned >> to normal. A look in the error_log showed this error: >> >> server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting >> >> I suspect that this is the reason that Apache was eating up all my system >> resources but I don't have any idea how to fix it. >> >> I do use PHP and MySQL fairly heavily. All the sites on the server use PHP >> in some form and most of the use MySQL. Could this be part of the problem? >> I >> attached a copy of my httpd.conf file to this message if that will help >> (It's also inserted into this email at the very bottom). >> >> Any help would be appreciated!!! >> > > Off-the-cuff guesses: > > - Install more RAM > - Install more CPU > - Install more CPU and more RAM > - limit MaxClients to 75 or 50 > > If you are getting that much traffic, grow the server to accommodate > it or choke it so that you can run FTP in the manner you like. > > Reese > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
