apache hanging up

I'm running apache /2.2.3 (centos) on a pretty busy for a forum (vbulletin) and it seems to get hung up once in a while.

I'm have extended status on so I can take a look at the server status and today I found once it was hung up:
3 requests currently being processed and 13 idle workers

when I looked at the status listing I found about 300 of these: www.mysite.com OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0

but no ip address just ::1 on the line

any ideas as to what's going on?

thanks in advance.


here are some basics:

ServerTokens OS
ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
PidFile run/httpd.pid
Timeout 600
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 50
KeepAliveTimeout 2


ProxyRequests Off


StartServers 200
MinSpareServers 10
ServerLimit 1000
MaxClients 300
MaxRequestsPerChild 500




<IfModule prefork.c>
#StartServers 8
StartServers 200
MinSpareServers 10
ServerLimit 1000
MaxClients 300
MaxRequestsPerChild 500
</IfModule>




<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 200
MaxClients 1000
MinSpareServers 10
MinSpareThreads 10
MaxSpareThreads 200
ThreadsPerChild 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

 

Hello there,

You are going to have to look at the logs to find out what is causing the issue. It may be MySQL and not the web server itself.

Regards,
Chris

 

In my opinion, the prefork setting are incorrect. The configuration should be the following:

StartServers 5
<IfModule prefork.c>
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
</IfModule>
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
KeepAlive Off
KeepAliveTimeout 5
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

 

Try checking your apache error logs , they help alots .

 

yes the prefork settings are way overkill

And you need to drop the worker config. you need to use one or the other