increasing apache max connections

[Stephen]

I am experiencing long delays while accessing the domains on one of my servers. I did a search around and looks like I will need to increase apache MaxClients,... then recompile apache (with php, mysql, etc...) but I have never done this before.

May I have some suggestions, commands or instructions please! Thank you very much!

I am using Redhat 7.2 with php4.1.1, apache 1.3.22, mysql 3.23.39 (default cpanel config).

 

[feanor]

Shouldn't need to recomplie, per se....

Increase your OS limits -&
/etc/rc.d/init.d/filelimits start

Then,
Increase max clients in your httpd.conf and restart apache.

 

[Stephen]

&& Increase your OS limits

Would you please advise on how I can do this! I am using kernel 2.4.x

Thank you!!!

 

[feanor]

That init script should do the trick for you..........
Regardless of your kernel version.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/filelimits start

 

[Stephen]

Thank you!!!

 

[Stephen]

I thought I got it fixed but the pages are loading very slow today. I set max clients to 1000.

Here is the error I received when ran
/etc/rc.d/init.d/filelimits start

--
/etc/rc.d/init.d/filelimits: /proc/sys/fs/dquot-max: No such file or directory
--

I tried to create dquot-max but can't seem to do so. error &E212: Can't open file for writing& when I do a &vi dquot-max& then &:w&

Is there a specific way I need to do in order to create this file?

 

[Stephen]

Anyone please help!!!

 

[rpmws]

[quote:91893ea30a][i:91893ea30a]Originally posted by Stephen[/i:91893ea30a]

Anyone please help!!!
[/quote:91893ea30a]

Hummmm ..have you done TOP to check loads? How about tracerout or ping plotter to watch for sluggesh net problems?

A way you can tell how APACHE is doing is by runing /apache-status behind a domain . (hint you will need to enable this in httpd.conf)

When you call that page you wil lsee html something like this:

-------------------------------------------------------
Server uptime: 17 hours 10 minutes 41 seconds
Total accesses: 322262 - Total Traffic: 1.9 GB
CPU Usage: u3.86 s2.65 cu.65 cs.26 - .012% CPU load
5.21 requests/sec - 31.9 kB/second - 6.1 kB/request
11 requests currently being processed, 8 idle servers

-------------------------------------------------------------------

and this might tell you what is going on further.

 

[feanor]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

Also tail and or grep for tons of duplicates in /usr/local/apache/logs (the base error_log, and base access_log).....

If your server is getting assaulted or a particular domain or account abused , this will give you clues as to WHOM.


You did increase the max connections in your apache config file right? I don't think this issue has anything to do with your file descriptor sizes as far as what we were discussing earlier.

 

[Stephen]

I have noticed this from the top command:

when the processes are at around 250 - 270 the sites load very fast (at night time)

then at around 6 - 7:00am the processes jump to 340, the web pages load a little slow.

then during the day time the processes jump to 450 - 500 =& the pages load very slow or sometimes not loading at all.

I did ran &/etc/rc.d/init.d/filelimits start& then increase MaxClients to 1024 in httpd.conf.

 

[AlaskanWolf]

how many customers you got on this server and whats the specs? if you overload a server, theres nothing you can really do to it other then move the customers to another box to allivate the high loads