optimize httpd.conf
 

I am running Plesk 8 Server, RH Linux EL4 3.0GHz 1GB Ram. My httpd.conf setting is as below:

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 8
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
</IfModule>


please advise the best optimized values for my server. My server often goes down due to large number of http

Please provide more information. Are you running out of connections/disk space/memory/CPU cycles, etc.? Are you getting errors in your logs?

thank you for your reply. My host provider said that I am out of memory so I have upgraded 1gb TO 2gb Ram. Even then i get errors in logs "memory exhausted" and it happends when there are large number of http processes are there. If i see the service httpd status I get at least 6 lines of http process, usually I get only 1 and half line of http process.

Can you post some info from the logs? Somebody here may have had a similar problem and be able to recognise the log data. Unless you're running a high volume site, upgrading to 2GB of RAM should have fixed the problem if it was just "memory exhausted".