On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Arnab Ganguly <aganguly01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > Is it possible that Apache server stops responding under heavy load, but it > responds to ping? What would be the possible causes for this? > Remote client is getting connection refused when it tries to connect.But > when the I ping the server from the client box it shows the server is alive. > Thanks > -A > If you hit MaxClients, apache will be able to accept some number of new connections but not really do anything with them. Eventually it won't be able to accept new connections (see ListenBacklog) -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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