On 8/6/06, Mididoc Productions <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Joshua > Slive > Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. August 2006 03:57 > An: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: Re: [users@httpd] server busy > > > On 8/5/06, Mididoc Productions <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thank you Joshua, > > > > I tried to mount the numbers, but I fear this was too high, > > cause the apache server could not be started anymore. > > What error message did you get? Aug 5 22:10:59 mail sshd[67557]: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed Aug 5 22:11:44 mail sshd[67626]: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed Aug 5 22:16:04 mail sshd[68292]: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed Aug 5 22:16:31 mail sshd[68359]: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed Aug 5 22:20:55 mail inetd[66229]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Aug 5 22:21:09 mail inetd[66229]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Those have nothing to do with apache, although they do seem to suggest general resource problems on your system. Try the apache error_log.
> > > > > Could you give me an idea about the amount please. > > > > As I told you we have at the moment: > > > > (original values) > > StartServers 5 > > > > MinSpareServers 3 > > MaxSpareServers 5 > > > > > > MaxClients 100 (50 was the original value) > > > > > > If we change the values to: > > StartServers 10 > > > > MinSpareServers 6 > > MaxSpareServers 10 > > > > say double the values, is this what you would propose? > > Those are still very low for a busy sight. They are fine for a site > that doesn't expect to see many simultaneous accesses. We had on Saturday 600 visitors for the whole day all sites together.
That is a miniscule quantity, so your settings for these directives are completely unimportant. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx