Re: Restart or Reload after changing MaxClients and ServerLimit

[Rainer Jung <rainer.jung@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ServerLimit and ThreadLimit configure the size of an internal structure 
which maintains data about processes and threads. This structure is only 
created during Apache start, so if you want to change these two params, 
you need to stop and start.

ThreadsPerChild and MaxClients can be changed and activates with 
"apachectl graceful", no need to restart. Only if ThreadsPerChild needs 
to get increased higher than ThreadLimit, or MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild 
needs to be increased higher than ServerLimit, you need to adjust these 
as well and therefore need a completely new start.

So if you want to reserve some reserve space for ThreadsPerChild or 
MaxClients, you should configure ThreadLimit = ThreadsPerChild + 
"reserved additional threads" and ServerLimit = 
MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild + "reserved additional clients"/ThreadsPerChild.

HTH,

Rainer

Am 24.04.2016 um 21:28 schrieb Cohen, Laurence:
> Thanks,
>
> I should have mentioned that I'm running Apache HTTPD 2.2 on a RHEL6.7
> system.  There it is tied to MaxClients which is getting changed at
> restart.  I believe, according to this that I need to do a full stop and
> start to get this to work.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Larry
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/en/mod/mpm_common.html#serverlimit
>
> >     Le 24 avr. 2016 à 21:20, Cohen, Laurence <lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
> >
> >     Thank you!  Which doc are you reading?  I'd like to look at it.
> >
> >     On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         Reading the doc, seems that ServerLimit is related to
> >         MaxRequestWorkers (which has a default set to 256).
> >
> >         Ben
> >
> >
> >
> > >         Le 24 avr. 2016 à 20:52, Cohen, Laurence <lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >         <mailto:lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
> > >
> > >         Hello,
> > >
> > >         While reloading httpd did increase MaxClients to 400 as
> > >         specified, it did not increase ServerLimit to 400 as
> > >         specified.  What is worse is that since ServerLimit remained
> > >         at 256, this caused MaxClients to be reduced to 256 since
> > >         ServerLimit seems to be the hard limit for MaxClients.
> > >
> > >         Even more frustrating is that when I did a service httpd
> > >         restart, it not only did not increase ServerLimit to 400, but
> > >         it threw an error that the attempt to increase ServerLimit
> > >         during a restart was ignored.
> > >
> > >         Any ideas why I cannot increase the ServerLimit?
> > >
> > >         Thanks,
> > >
> > >         Laurence Cohen
> > >
> > >         On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Ben RUBSON
> > >         <ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ben.rubson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >             Hi,
> > >
> > >             reload will do it !
> > >
> > >             Ben
> > >
> > >
> > > >             Le 24 avr. 2016 à 17:14, Cohen, Laurence
> > > >             <lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
> > > >
> > > >             Hi,
> > > >
> > > >             I need to increase my httpd server's MaxClients and
> > > >             ServerLimit.  Can I just do a
> > > >
> > > >             service httpd reload
> > > >
> > > >             to load the new settings?
> > > >
> > > >             Or do I need to do a
> > > >
> > > >             service httpd restart
> > > >
> > > >             to load the new settings?
> > > >
> > > >             This is on a production server with active users, so
> > > >             obviously the former is preferable.
> > > >
> > > >             Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >             Larry Cohen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         --
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> > >         Larry Cohen
> > >         System Administrator
> > >
> > >         12021 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 400
> > >         Reston, VA 20190
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     --
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> >     Larry Cohen
> >     System Administrator
> >
> >     12021 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 400
> >     Reston, VA 20190
> >     Email lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx <http://novetta.com/>
> >     Office 703-885-1064
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> www.novetta.com
>
> Larry Cohen
>
> System Administrator
>
>
> 12021 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 400
>
> Reston, VA 20190
>
> Email lcohen@xxxxxxxxxxx <http://novetta.com>
>
> Office 703-885-1064

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