hi friends,

there has been a increase in my clients server's traffic and its causing apache to stop exit:

ive been researching it for the past 6 hours or so and everything leads to the fix being "ulimit -n 9999 && ulimit -u 9999"

On a dedicated server, do you think it's bad to have "open files" and "max user processes" to unlimited?

also, can/will these ever exceed MaxClients? for example, hypothetically lets say you have 1,000 people connected to the server...will apache ever need more than 1,000 file descriptors and/or user processes open for these 1,000 connections?

thanks in advance

ps...

First you should check out this page regarding a bug:

link

Second, I do not know why you are running the particular command lsof | grep httpd/apache | wc -l - you could explain what you are doing.

Third, apache's httpd.conf would help to see what it is you are doing, I am assuming uid 48 is apache.

Fourth, connections to web servers are ephemeral, in other words the browser sends a GET the server responds and there is no longer a connection, so it seems unlikely that thousands of connections would be occurring simultaneously unless you are running an interactive game server.

So more information is required.

Linux flavor and version,
Apache version,
Any other helper programs such as perl or php etc and their versions and role played.
The game being served if this is the case.

A copy of httpd.conf, apache error_log and apache access_log

Thanks.