splee

Try having a look through these docs to see if they help your situation:

https://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/perf-tuning.html
https://www.xs4all.nl/~thomas/oscon2003/PerformanceTuning.html
https://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025945,60079706p-39000639q,00.htm – I know this link is for poweredge servers, but it’s not really going to be all that specific to Dell ??

Hope this helps.

Also, check out starritt’s suggestion too.

Are there any pointers in your error logs? They should be in /var/log/apache2

It sounds like your apache is currently eating all the memory on your server. Change the section you posted to:

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
</IfModule>

This alleviated similar problems on my server (which gets relatively few hits) so hopefully it should do the same for you.

BTW, while this is tried and tested on my server, I didn’t get it from any documented source. It was mainly through trial and error that I came to the above setup.

Try to find any sections that look similar to the following and paste them here:

<IfModule blahblah>
StartServers 3
MinSpareServers 2
MaxSpareServers 5
MaxClients 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 1000
</IfModule>

Then take a look in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled and list what module names you have in there.

We should be able to go from there.

Also:

https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Planetthououghtful: I was planning on developing this very same plugin. If you want any help in coding it I will be glad to help.