Too Many Apache Connections
Sep 24, 2007
I currently have a dedicated server with the following specs:
Celeron 2.6ghz
2gb ram
100mbit connection
the cpu load is always under 0.7, and I always have at least 400mb of free ram.
The site takes about 5-10 seconds to load a test page with just a single word on it. When I type netstat -n | grep :80 | wc -l
I get around 1100-1200 connections. I get about 130k page views per day.
My site is about 95% static html, it has about 150 images per page. How can I speed up my site?
Here are my apache httpd.conf settings:
Timeout - 100
KeepAlive - on
KeepAliveTimeout - 12
StartServers - 48
MinSpareServers - 32
MaxSpareServers - 64
MaxClients - 1500
MaxRequestsPerChild - 1000000
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Sep 15, 2008
Just logged in my cPanel, and Apache Server Status shows
Parent Server Generation: 7
Server uptime: 2 hours 52 minutes 5 seconds
Total accesses: 701666 - Total Traffic: 63.7 GB
CPU Usage: u1610.22 s255.4 cu0 cs0 - 18.1% CPU load
68 requests/sec - 6.3 MB/second - 95.2 kB/request
400 requests currently being processed, 0 idle workers
I told customer service and said my website (a big forum) have 4000 people now, I felt very slow, could the slowness caused by this max apache connection setting?
I got reply: "400 seems to be as high as Apache can go. Your httpd.conf settings currently show 500 max connections enabled. If Apache is stopping at 400 then this is it's hard limit for maximum connections. Also If it was able to go even higher you would eventually run into memory issues on the server that would cause the server to crash."
Can anyone tells me if "400 requests currently being processed, 0 idle workers " is a problem or could it be the cause of the slowness. I imagin if more people request connection, and apache can't deal with that much, it has to let those request wait in the queue, therefore caused slowness or time-out.
The seem server could deal with 8000 people online before, no any problem at all and speed was quite fast. I don't know what i should do now.
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Jan 19, 2007
is a way to understand whats the bext max apache settings for me?
Maybe to look over httpd-status requests currently being processed and the number of idle servers or the number of strokes?
Or probably the best way is to use some benchmark application but then i am not sure how to test my config?
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Feb 22, 2008
whats the easiest way to monitor the number of apache connections?
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Jul 11, 2009
Our web server encounter a problem lately, that an IP address in India repetitively sent requests that uses up all connections available in Apache. All connections appear to be in W state. The connections are not terminated by Apache even though timeout has been set to lower 30 seconds. Similarly, MySQL connections also are not dropped until Apache is restarted.
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Feb 24, 2007
I would like to know what is the maximum number of Apache connections a Server can handle? Does this depends on the Config of the Server? Is it Possible for a server to handle more than 2500 Active Apache connections without timeout / connection failure / slowness?
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Apr 19, 2007
I've got an older "Super Server P4" series server @ ThePlanet - it's been a great box for years. We recently upgraded php4 to php5 and did a mysql upgrade as well. Ever since, randomly, without warning, Apache stops terminating connections, so the max connections fills up, and httpd won't respond. Apache doesn't stop running, it just max's out and stops accepting new connections, so customers assume the server is "down", although email/FTP work fine.
The server never crashes, the loads stay down, but httpd just fills up and won't accept more connections. We can't increase max connections (we actually DECRESED IT), because they'll just keep piling up, never terminating, and then ultimately, it will crash the box.
My admin has worked for nearly 2 weeks trying to figure it out, and Scott (AtomicRocketTurtle) and his team have been evaluating it for about a week - it's happened 3x in 2 days ... last night, httpd quit responding for about 7+ hours and since we didn't have httpd monitoring, we never knew until the office opened this AM and I had two very angry customers. Scott suspects it may be some rogue application that triggers it that didn't affect it prior to the php5/mysql upgrades.
Both Scott and Parm, my admin, have about thrown in the towel and are recommending we retire the server and migrate to a new box.
It's older - much older .. I'm pasting specs below, RHEL3, Plesk 7.5 .. but just wonder, before retiring an old server that was RUNNING GREAT prior to the upgrade, maybe someone has seen this happen before?
If so - PLEASE LET US KNOW before I spend the $$$ on a new box.
Current box's specs:
CPU GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Version psa v7.5.4_build75060118.18 os_RedHat el3
OS Linux 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp
RAM: 1GB, with 2GB swap
apache 1.3.31
bind 9.2.4-20.EL3
coldfusion Component was not installed
coldfusion-support 7.3-2.96.128
courier-imap 3.0.8-rhel3.build75050824.12
drweb 4.32.2-rh7_psa
drweb-qmail 4.32-rhel3.build75050824.12
frontpage 5.0.2.2634
httpd 2.0.46-61.ent
jdk 1.4.2
logrotate 3.7
mailman 2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7
mod_perl 1.99_09-10.ent
mod_python 3.0.3-5.ent
mysql 4.1.21-2.rhel3.art
perl-Apache-ASP 2.57-rhel3.build75050824.12
php 5.0.4-13.rhel3.art
phpmyadmin 2.5.3
phppgadmin 2.4.2
postgresql 7.3.6-7
postgresql-server 7.3.18-1
proftpd 1.2.9
psa 7.5.4-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-agent 1.3.2-2_psa7.1
psa-api-rpc 7.5.4-rhel3.build75050930.11
psa-bu 7.5.4-rhel3.build75050926.17
psa-horde 3.0.5-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-imp 4.0.3-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-logrotate 3.7-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-manual-custom-skin-guide 7.5.4-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-migration-manager 7.5.4-rhel3.build75050930.11
psa-proftpd 1.2.10-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-qmail 1.03-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-qmail-rblsmtpd 0.70-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-spamassassin Component was not installed
psa-tomcat-configurator 7.5.4-rhel3.build75050824.12
psa-turba 2.0.3-rhel3.build75050926.17
qmail 1.03
rblsmtpd 0.70
samba 3.0.9-1.3E.12
spamassassin 3.1.3-1
SSHTerm 0.2.2-rhel3.build75050824.12
stunnel 4.04-4
tomcat 4.1.24-full.2jpp
webalizer 2.01_10-15.ent
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Webserver is restarted all TCP connections randomly. we are not able to get any error into errorlog file.
Webserver close all TCP connection and start created new TCP connection for new request.
AcceptFilter http none
AcceptFilter https none
Also, conf file is saying that
Defaults Values are:
EnableMMAP On
EnableSendfile Off
Not sure what's wrong with server.
We have installed "Apache 2.4.6-x86 server" on Win 2008 R2 Standard server (64-Bit).
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Nov 13, 2008
I am facing to this trouble: apache max out the number of connections. When viewing status, all I get here
Code:
SrvPIDAccMCPU SSReqConnChildSlotClientVHostRequest
0-028240/6/65R 0.1414290.00.020.32 ??..reading..
1-028170/17/65R 0.111510.00.030.22 ??..reading..
2-028350/3/57R 0.20112210.00.000.24 ??..reading..
3-027570/33/62R 1.431412930.00.130.21 ??..reading..
4-026430/75/75R 2.12153190.00.310.31 ??..reading..
5-026440/52/52R 2.061610.00.240.24 ??..reading..
6-028180/13/60R 0.621600.00.070.22 ??..reading..
7-026490/63/63R 2.84143070.00.370.37 ??..reading..
8-028190/7/43R 0.271610.00.020.27 ??..reading..
9-028080/27/76R 0.361410.00.040.29 ??..reading..
10-026750/50/52R 2.9617630.00.260.26 ??..reading..
11-027720/23/49R 3.641600.00.100.19 ??..reading..
12-026620/64/64R 2.201520.00.290.29 ??..reading..
13-027730/25/64R 1.121500.00.140.19 ??..reading..
which account on server is the reason please? I am on CentOS box with DirectAdmin.
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any good rule to limit Apache (port 80) connections from 1 IP to 15 with iptables/csf?
And total connections to the box to 100?
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Feb 5, 2007
As you can see my apache is full of Reading connections..... they are filling up my server dening legitimate users to browse trought the websites hosted there... I think this is what is happening to me:
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Im using apache 1.3.3.7 on RHES 3 with latest patches and kernel.
930 requests currently being processed, 6 idle servers
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1-044940/40/40R 0.33340.00.060.06 ??..reading..
2-044950/55/55R 0.47330.00.110.11 ??..reading..
3-044960/35/35R 0.31330.00.050.05 ??..reading..
4-044970/38/38R 0.13210.00.090.09 ??..reading..
5-045410/40/40R 0.16360.00.130.13 ??..reading..
6-046190/28/28R 0.12110.00.030.03 ??..reading..
7-046220/34/34R 0.35320.00.100.10 ??..reading..
8-051640/34/34R 0.135100.00.300.30 ??..reading..
Also, here is the top output of the top command:
top - 12:46:21 up 10 min, 1 user, load average: 1.40, 2.03, 1.06
Tasks: 1063 total, 2 running, 1060 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.9% us, 1.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.1% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2073516k total, 2001984k used, 71532k free, 42384k buffers
Swap: 2048276k total, 0k used, 2048276k free, 178096k cached
Server seems to be fine, but total tasks are always between 1060 and 1124... thats very rare too..
how to avoid this attack?
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I've been having trouble the past few days with someone who's been "attacking" my site so to speak by continuously downloading very large files with as many connections as (he) can open. I operate a large downloads site for computer games, this person has selected the largest files (like 400-500MB). Not sure of the real intent other than to clog up my bandwidth capacity. Also he appears to be using proxies since as soon as I ban one, another shows up seeminly from China.
Anyway, I have mod_bw and I've limited the number of connections in the downloads area to 2. While that works ok, his tool uses threads like a download manager would and he's using up 30-40 child threads for his 2 file downloads.
So 2 questions,
Is there anyway to not only limit file downloads to 2, but limit the number of connections per request? Many of my visitors do use download managers and I'd like for them to continue using them but use a reasonable number of threads like 6 or 8, but not 30.
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I just received an email saying
We were forced to suspend your account due to excessive apache connections causing ftp to go down. Here is a snapshot of the activity:
242-0 22189 0/57/57 W 1.24 10 0 0.0 0.09 0.09 xxxxxx xxxxxx.com
243-0 22194 0/1/1 W 0.01 0 0 0.0 0.00 0.00 xxxxxxx xxxxxx.com GET
244-0 22214 0/4/4 W 0.15 4 0 0.0 0.03 0.03 xxxxxx xxxxx.com GET
And when I was on the phone with the support, they told me my site had opened up 400 apache connections + using the GET command and was causing FTP slow downs.
It just happens so that a file I posted made its way to a popular forum and all the sudden, everyone was downloading the file.
What is the best way to correct this problem? and GET? Isn't that a FTP Command? but people were downloading via [url]
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[root@server ~]# netstat -alpn | grep :80 | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 |sort |uniq -c
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8 IP #1
8 IP #2
8 . . .etc
8
9
9
9
9
9
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
18
19
25
26
32
32
91
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