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Date: 16 Jan 2004 08:45:23 -0800
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Timeouts / responsiveness issues with Apache

What are your settings for the following;
StartServers        
MinSpareServers      
MaxSpareServers     
MaxClients         
MaxRequestsPerChild

and, when you check the memory usage of an individual instance of the
http daemon, how much memory is it using?

-m

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 23:36, Damian Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have recently migrated from several individual Apache 1.3.x servers 
> running around 1000 virtual sites each to a server farm with multiple 
> servers (Apache/1.3.29) all capable of running all of the sites (about 
> 4000 in total).  The server farm is behind a load balancer running 
> ldirectord from the LVS project.
> 
> The problem we are having is that every so often one of the web servers 
> seems to go offline and either become very sluggish with responses or 
> even times-out.  If it failed totally, ldirectord would notice and map 
> it out, but it doesn't (usually).  After a few minutes of bad 
> performance, it usually comes good, but it happens frequently enough to 
> one or more of the web servers that it's causes noticeable glitches to 
> our clients.
> 
> Also, and it may or may not be related, occasionally Apache dies totally 
> (ie no live processes) and requires starting again.
> 
> Each server has 2GB of RAM.  Websites are a mix of flat HTML through to 
> complicated PHP sites using MySQL connections (we've checked the 
> database, it doesn't look like this is the problem.)
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what could be at issue here?  Does anyone have 
> any experience with this sort of large-ish server farm to give us any 
> feedback on configuration settings or other tuning parameters?  Any 
> decent tuning documents on the web that take into account this type of 
> scenario?
> 
> Kind regards
> Damian Meyer
> 
> 
> 
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