Please help me keep this server alive

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I have a very strange problem.

The server crashes by Apache(as you've allready noticed).
Even ssh is unreachable when those crashes are done.

Here is the configuration :

Debian stable
Apache/2.0.55
mod_ssl/2.0.55
OpenSSL/0.9.7g
PHP/4.4.1

The error log has these lines :

[Fri Feb 10 23:16:37 2006] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
[Sat Feb 11 00:29:52 2006] [notice] child pid 9957 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sat Feb 11 00:38:23 2006] [notice] child pid 9372 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sat Feb 11 00:40:38 2006] [notice] child pid 10198 exit signal Bus error (7)
[Sat Feb 11 02:28:08 2006] [notice] child pid 10170 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sat Feb 11 03:18:37 2006] [notice] child pid 10225 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sat Feb 11 07:26:33 2006] [notice] child pid 10390 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sat Feb 11 11:31:43 2006] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
[Sat Feb 11 11:31:44 2006] [warn] pid file /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Sat Feb 11 11:31:44 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/4.4.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

I understand the two lines in the end(are after I started again the server), but what about the segmentation fault?

Does anyone knows what can cause this?

The only resource I found is that php 4.x crashes the apache (2.x) when is used in ErrorDocument (.htaccess)(using php error pages) For this I am upgrading the sites to php 5, but I believe that this is not the reason for the problem.

Thanks in advance

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What have you got the MaxClients set at?

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MaxClients is set to 150

you should have max clients set to 0, and alsu use htacess files to handle error documents, instead of editing the config file

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Having maxClients to 0 will crash the server for sure, because if this machine will not be able to handle those requests. I will try to raise it to 200 or something.

The error documents are handled by htaccess.

ok you put 0 and it doesnt set it to unlimited? i cant even remeber of the top of my head, but you should have a way to use unlimited users (if the machine can handle it) if machine can only handle 200 at a time that is not that many

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Hey Nick, what are the specs of the server? Have you got enough ram for apache to handle more than 150?

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Hey Nick, what are the specs of the server? Have you got enough ram for apache to handle more than 150?

No I don't think that it can handle more than 150 as it is an amd64 3Ghz with 1gb ram and it is used for all the services (dns, qmail, apache, mysql)

I found some bugs related to eaccelerator, and change them. Hope it will help

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Keep us posted!

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I just read the eaccelerator forums, and it seems that eaccelerator produces some fault signals.

So I turned some sites to php5 (with eaccelerator not enabled), and for the rest I turned the eaccelerator caching on. By the way with the caching on, the server seems to load much faster.

 Well I dont have a answer to your problem. But you could try www.webhostingtalk.com and post in their teck forum. People seem to know alot in that forum. They should be able to help.

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Well I dont have a answer to your problem. But you could try www.webhostingtalk.com and post in their teck forum. People seem to know alot in that forum. They should be able to help.

I will try them too. But it seems that the problem solved (at least I hope)

Thanks for the info

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