RE: [cobalt-users] connections to HTTP port 80 are being rejected.

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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||>Should I increase apache config parameters more?
||>Anyway I often can't browse my sites.
||>Why  port 80 often reject connections?
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||>Thanks very much,
||>
||>Filiberto

MaxClients is the number of connections to your server at one time. Once it
hits that level, it will close off connections until someone disconnects.
It's like a storefront that can only fit 20 people inside at one time. No
more will fit, so they won't let anyone else in until someone leaves.
One of your sites has got some *heavy* traffic going on. You might want to
check your access or usage stats and track down who it is; then look to see
if this site is hosting Warez or porn. Your access logs can give you more
info on what exact pages are being hit the most, then you can ftp to this
page (if you still can't connect via web) and see what it is.

I could be totally off the mark here; but it *looks* to me like there is
some program going crazy and spawning all kinds of children that are running
wild. With the clients maxed out, it seems to me like it would be a CGI
program that tracked hits to certain pictures or certain downloads. The lost
(wild) clients could be proceses that start when a surfer clicks on a link
but then gets disconnected... I'm not sure.
Either way, you definitely need to do some investigating and find out
*exactly* what site is serving up what kind of content to completely
overtake your server like this.

Unless, of course, they're all your sites and you know what's on them.  ;)
If I've been incorrect in any of this please correct me gently; I'm just
going on what I know from trying to connect to overburdened servers and
creating (ahem) heavy-traffic sites. :)

Carrie Bartkowiak