Hello

Im running a Debian webserver on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz with 2GB ram and 2X 250GB ATA ST3250310AS in it.

The problem i has is that it has started to get ALLOT of traffic now, say 150~ ish connections all the time. around there it start to timeout so i get error message in chrome saying "cannot find the server with domian.com" bla bla bla.

Apache2 has is using prefork.c according to "apache2 -l" and here is the current settings

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 8
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
</IfModule>

I have a 100/100mbit Fiber connection so i dont think there is anyting like that. whu is it timing out when it reaches high connections ? the load on the server before it happens is about 0.14 0.18 0.09 so what could cause this problems ?

run htop/top look what process take most time(i think timeouts possibly caused by server overloads/or huge req/s ). Also check server-status to see actual apache load. If you bumped to connections limit tweak ServerLimit / MaxClients values.

use "ab2" or "ab" command to check your apache threshold

# man ab2
# man ab

example.
# ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/index.html

pass other option as well to check your keepalive threshold..

you might get some idea...



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