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maxclientscheck "servernmane" has exceeded the MaxClients

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by wimp, Dec 23, 2002.

  1. wimp

    wimp Well-Known Member

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    maxclientscheck "servernmane" has exceeded the Max

    ok, i never seen such message befor.
    Can anyone please tell me what this messages means and what is to do?
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    IMPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
    &Apache has reached the MaxClients
    &limit. cPanel has increased the MaxClients limit to 200 (10 higher).
    &
    &You may wish to suspend the user with the largest access log as they
    &are generally the person using up all of the avalible connections. However,
    &your should
    &have your system admin verify this first.
    &
    &Top 3 Largest access logs
    &====================================
    &339564 /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domainname.com
    &126480 /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domainname.com
    &119336 /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domainname.com
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    Think yep no problem i will go to clean domlog.... but.....
    seems really there is no way to clean domlogs via SSH ...or, in other words cleaning it out , all data are still there... they are also there afhter restart the server.... :(

    This is not the firts time i clean domlogs... so nothing new .. but now... what is to do?

    Can anyone tell me also how to clean definitly domlogs?


    Thanks
     
    #1 wimp, Dec 23, 2002
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    Although I've never gotten that type of msg. it would seem that Cpanel has done some basic Administration for you.

    As every Server has a default limit for maximum connections at one time, it would seem yours was reached. In order to allow more connections the &MaxClient& limit had to be increased -- else visitors to any site on the Server would receive an error msg. -- &Temporaily Overloaded& or something similar.

    Not being aware of this feature, I am glad to hear it is there and results are sent, so a person knows what's going on.
     
    #2 Website Rob, Dec 23, 2002
  3. wimp

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    yes i saw the limit in httpd.conf and increased it.

    :)
     
    #3 wimp, Dec 24, 2002
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    I have received this on occasion from several of our servers. Check your server logs for a 'mini' attack (for lack of a better word). We've seen these on several servers. Will probably look something like:

    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:52 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:53 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:53 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:53 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:54 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:54 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:55 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:56 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:37:58 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:38:00 -0500] &-& 408 -
    66.137.243.249 - - [20/Dec/2002:12:38:01 -0500] &-& 408 -
     
    #4 Tom Pyles, Dec 24, 2002
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    hi,yes i read about a worm attack (problems on Win. server but not on Linux) that could cause this messages.


    http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=facce525f74ef74bb3b7685c8e6e260d&postid=776662#post776662
     
    #5 wimp, Dec 24, 2002
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    Or it could be related to this, which I don't think has anything to do with Windows:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7207e841e6419b92

    There have been several interesting posts about this on these forums.
     
    #6 Juanra, Dec 24, 2002
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