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Hey just wondering how some of you server admins overcome the 256 clients at a time problem on your servers. It seems I'm starting to have a problem and reaching 256 surfers a time limt on my server. Any at certain times I cant reach my sites do to to my surfers on the server at once. Is there a easy way to bump this number up with out it conflicting with other things on the server and making the server unstable? I just wanted to see how some of you modify your settings on your server at a safe level.

Most likely what you are running into is the maxclients limit on your httpd.conf, doubt that your default kernel maxusers var is affecting you. You need to bump that up while monitoring your server-status page to make sure that your server can take the extra load, otherwise you overload, sites still slow to crawl, and depending on what happens next you can also possibly run out of swap and have your server crash.

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yeah as said increase your maxclients setting in your httpd.conf

You can increase your maxlimit, i'd also check to see how much memory you have also

mke sure your not overflowing your cpu + hd