On a new managed server (Apache 1.3.27, P4, 1 GB RAM) for a very busy site (60 hits/second at times), we are having trouble getting it to run smoothly. I know it's just a configuration issue; the machine is capable of handling this traffic. The behavior is that not long after startup, it reaches its MaxClients setting (currently 150). Some other pertinent settings our sysadmin has been tweaking:
With these settings it's handling 18 hits/second (static html + small images), with a load of 0.01. BUT, requests often take 10+ seconds to be processed.
