Apache MaxClients : Help

2025-04-18

Hi All,

One of my servers httpd kept crashing the other day and i checked the error_log and found this:

Code:

server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

So i opened up the httpd.conf file and changed my default ( 50 ) to 256.
I was doing so more research and the reason i kept it at 256 was becuase i read somewhere that its the highest you can have it unless you add a " ServerLimit"

So i also test that out to add my ServerLimit to 1024 and then my MaxClients to 1024 and the server would not restart. Then i removed the ServerLimit and set back the MaxClients to 256.

Does anyone know how i can setup the server to be able to have more than 256 clients? I would at least want it to be over 1000 if possible. I know there must be some other setting that i have to add but i cant seem to find the right ones.

If anyone could help that would be great.

Thanks!