• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Problem Symptoms:
This message appeared in $httpd_root/logs/error_log

[Mon Jun 12 16:19:02 2006] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

Users received a 503 server busy message. The same error was recorded on May 24, 2006.

The relevant section of $httpd_root/conf/httpd.conf looks like this:

Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 30

Cause:
Configuration

Resolution:
1. Increase MaxClients to 256 in
$httpd_root/conf/httpd.conf

2. Restart apache

Category: Web OPAC (500) - ALEPH

Subject: ALEPH - 500

• Article last edited: 3/11/2014