256 max clients being processed?

Hi, I've looked everywhere and I can't figure this out!

During peak hours requests start to hang on my server because it gets to the max amount of requests. For some reason I can't get it over 256. Nothing I do in httpd.conf effects this..

Please shed some light onto why this is happening.

(Usually it shows something like this for httpd status)

   Current Time: Monday, 27-Apr-2009 19:34:36 CDT
   Restart Time: Monday, 27-Apr-2009 19:23:01 CDT
   Parent Server Generation: 17
   Server uptime: 11 minutes 34 seconds
   Total accesses: 78535 - Total Traffic: 619.2 MB
   CPU Usage: u34.5 s9.15 cu0 cs0 - 6.29% CPU load
   113 requests/sec - 0.9 MB/second - 8.1 kB/request
   256 requests currently being processed, 0 idle workers

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CWKKWCCCKCCCCKCKCKKKCCKCKKCWCKCWKCKKCWKKCKCCKKCCKKKKKCKCKCKKKCCC
CCKCKCKKCCKCKCKKCKCCCKKCCKKCCCCKCKKKKCKCKKCKCKCCCKCKKCKCKKCKCCKC
WCCKCKWCKKKCCKCCKKKKKCKWCKCKCCCKKCKKKKKCKCCKCKWKCKCKKCKCKCCKCKCC

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Thanks,
Jake

 

have you tweaked your httpd.conf at all?

Could you do a netstat -anp - May look like a ddos attack.