I have an unmanaged site, alrightsounds.com, running CentOS. The ServerLimt seems to be stuck at 10. This works OK when most of the people in China a asleep, but... << WARNING: MaxClients of 256 exceeds ServerLimit value of 10 servers, lowering MaxClients to 10. To increase, please see the ServerLimit directive. [Tue Apr 19 09:37:51 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authent ication ... [Tue Apr 19 09:37:51 2011] [notice] Digest: done [Tue Apr 19 09:37:51 2011] [warn] WARNING: Attempt to change ServerLimit ignored during restart [Tue Apr 19 09:37:51 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations >> After the reboot of Apache, I get this << [root@server1 httpd]# ps -e |grep httpd |wc 11 44 330 >> And I can't get the site on my browser. << [root@server1 httpd]# httpd -t Syntax OK [root@server1 httpd]# httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c >> Here is the prefork section of httpd.conf <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 150 </IfModule> I have re-installed apache and tried it with the default httpd.conf, and I still have the same problem. Thanks, Marion --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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