Since last 20 days my site is goin down, my server loads get high enough and site just stop responding. I think it's b'coz of apache gets overloaded. here's the erros i got, [root@dex196 ~]# tail /var/log/httpd/error_log [Sat Jan 30 08:48:13 2010] [warn] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] mod_include: Options +Includes (or IncludesNoExec) wasn't set, INCLUDES filter removed [Sat Jan 30 08:48:14 2010] [error] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/phpadmin [Sat Jan 30 08:48:14 2010] [warn] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] mod_include: Options +Includes (or IncludesNoExec) wasn't set, INCLUDES filter removed [Sat Jan 30 13:45:40 2010] [error] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:) [Sat Jan 30 19:47:49 2010] [error] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] File does not exist: /var/www/html/mysqladmin [Sat Jan 30 19:47:49 2010] [warn] [client xx.xxx.xx.xxx] mod_include: Options +Includes (or IncludesNoExec) wasn't set, INCLUDES filter removed [Sat Jan 30 20:46:58 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/blockpage, referer: http://127.0.0.1/ [Sat Jan 30 20:46:58 2010] [warn] [client 127.0.0.1] mod_include: Options +Includes (or IncludesNoExec) wasn't set, INCLUDES filter removed, referer: http://127.0.0.1/ [Sat Jan 30 21:42:07 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/server-status [Sat Jan 30 21:42:07 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/403.shtml [root@196 ~]# top top - 21:50:07 up 1 day, 2:05, 1 user, [U][COLOR="Red"]load average: 488.74, 335.22, 159.59[/COLOR][/U] Tasks: 655 total, 511 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 99.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8169220k total, 6751676k used, 1417544k free, 228484k buffers Swap: 8385848k total, 0k used, 8385848k free, 4126992k cached Code (markup): Could someone explain me, what's wrong?
Is there a control panel with this server? Is there a firewall as well? I am wondering, from just the few lines posted, why the localhost client would be denied to the server? How do you get things back down, just an httpd restart?
Apache maxclients setting is causing problems, and that we can't find a proper value for it. I don't know what to do now. Anyway who is expert in apache and can help me?
The question would be, why is it hitting the max clients? I would think that there is something else that is stopping/slowing the child process down, which in turn, is causing the child to hold onto processes longer than it should, and then it overloads and reaches the max clients. When you restart, I assume the loads go back down to normal?