Apache [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

最近公司有个客户报了一个问题，就是运行一段时间后在apache的日志/var/log/httpd/error_log文件中有一条错误信息

[Fri Jul 29 15:45:37 2016] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

检查了一下，这是由于并发链接数太多导致的，后来查了一下apache的文档，发现可以通过修改apache的配置文件

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf中的MaxClients参数来调整。

在调整之前首先要检查一下apache运行在哪一种模式下是prefork还是worker，使用“/usr/sbin/httpd -l”命令来检查，当检查出是哪一种模式之后，就可以找到/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf中对应的配置部分来修改。

# httpd -l
Compiled in modules:
  core.c
  prefork.c
  http_core.c
  mod_so.c

修改一下参数，将其中

<IfModule prefork.c>  
StartServers       8  
MinSpareServers    5  
MaxSpareServers   20  
ServerLimit      256  
MaxClients       256  
MaxRequestsPerChild  4000  
</IfModule> 

修改为

<IfModule prefork.c>  
StartServers     8  
MinSpareServers  5  
MaxSpareServers  20  
ServerLimit     1024  
MaxClients      1024  
MaxRequestsPerChild  50  
</IfModule>

然后重新启动apache “service httpd restart”。

关于参数的意义，在apache的配置中有详细说明，如下：

# prefork MPM  
# StartServers: number of server processes to start  
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare  
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare  
# ServerLimit: maximum value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the server  
# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start  
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves  
# worker MPM  
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start  
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections  
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare  
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare  
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process  
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves