[cobalt-users] Raq550 Apache Dying

[Brian Rahill <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I've got a Raq550 server. Every few days (sometimes a week or more) Apache 
decides to quit on me.  I'm usually not there to see it happen but it 
happens at different times during the day.  Sometimes it's 10 PM sometimes 
it's 11 AM when it dies.  The Active Monitor sometimes is able to restart 
it immediately, sometimes it takes an hour before it restarts.

I've looked at the logs. On one or two occasions when it crashed I saw a 
error: server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients 
setting

I've raised the MaxClients setting to 512 but I'm wondering if there is 
anything else I should do.

The server is lightly loaded (0.15) now but doing a ps -auxfw I see about 
300 lines of this:

httpd     1745  0.0  0.5 14072 6084 ?        S    04:25   0:01  \_ 
/usr/sbin/httpd -DHAVE_I18N -DHAVE_INTERBASE -DHAVE_MYSQL -DHAVE_
httpd     1746  0.0  0.5 14072 6056 ?        S    04:25   0:02  \_ 
/usr/sbin/httpd -DHAVE_I18N -DHAVE_INTERBASE -DHAVE_MYSQL -DHAVE_

There are 15-20 lines with the same timestamp and then another 15-20 lines 
with a different timestamp, and so on and so on.....

A restart of Apache reduces the number but it almost immediately is up at 
50 or so.

Also a command line restart brings up this strange error:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd: line 3:  8617 Killed                  $LCD_SWRITE 
"$LINE1" "$LINE2" >/dev/null 2>&1
Setting up Web Service:  httpd[Sun Mar  2 21:01:50 2003] [warn] 
NameVirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80 has no VirtualHosts

I've seen this mentioned before on the list but without a solution.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Brian