too many httpd processes

[Ken Mei <ke...@neuralmedia.com>]

HI All,

I am running an coldfusion server 5.0 and apache 1.3.20 on RedHat Linux 7.2
on a dell server with CPU 1.0 GHz and 1GB RAM.  The machine host a website
that has about 6 millions hit / month.   The current configuration i have on
apache is

Timeout 300
KeepAlive on
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 32
MaxSpareServers 64
StartServers 20
MaxClients 250
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000


When the server  runs for certain time, a day or so, then it starts to hang
on serving  dynamic contents like .cfm files.  However, the static page like
html page can be access.  Does anyone see this problem?  and  have a
solutions for it?

Folllowing is part of the apache server log when this problem happens.
---begin log file----
[Sat Jul 13 04:02:06 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there
are 27 idle, and 27 total children

[Sat Jul 13 04:27:39 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawng 8 children, there are
31 idle, and 45 total children

[Sat Jul 13 09:24:57 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawnin8 children, there are
31 idle, and 83 total children

[Sat Jul 13 09:43:35 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there
are 29 idle, and 171 total children

[Sat Jul 13 10:00:33 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning8 children, there
are 21 idle, and 205 total children

[Sat Jul 13 10:00:34 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning16 children, there
are 29 idle, and 213 total children

[Sat Jul 13 10:22:03 2002] [error] server reached MaxClients setting,
consider raising the MaxClients setting

---end log file----


Thanks,

Ken




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