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I've had a problem with Apache since this morning, I can no longer access the websites.

I get the error: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting

I'm using the mpm_event.

Server memory: 15GB (16GB - 1 dedicated)

I tried increasing the parameters:

ServerLimit 750
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestWorkers 725

Another strange thing is linked to the fact that when I launch: systemctl status httpd.service

In the processes I only see /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND and therefore I can't even understand if there is some process/script that is blocking.

Thanks in advance, Matteo

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  • bobcares.com/blog/server-reached-maxrequestworkers-setting. Also check /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf
    – Turdie
    Commented Nov 14, 2023 at 14:16
  • Also do a grep -R "MaxRequestWorkers" /etc/apache2/ or grep -R "MaxRequestWorkers" /etc/httpd/. And then restart apache apachectl -k graceful
    – Turdie
    Commented Nov 14, 2023 at 14:22
  • Ok I checked the configuration but everything seems to be ok, could it be a DDoS attack?
    – Matteo Cigognini
    Commented Nov 14, 2023 at 19:55
  • You have to check the access logs for that, if you see at lot of requests coming in there. Or use this command netstat -an | egrep ":80|:443" | egrep '^tcp' | grep -v LISTEN | awk '{print $5}' | egrep '([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' | sed 's/^\(.*:\)\?\(\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.\)\{3\}[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*$/\2/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | sed 's/::ffff
    – Turdie
    Commented Nov 14, 2023 at 20:21
  • The really strange thing is that until yesterday everything always went correctly using the prefork module. Yesterday morning it started to give problems so after some tests I switched to using the event module and changing the parameters. Even now it's very strange what happens, every now and then it crashes... I also checked the access logs and error logs but nothing strange.
    – Matteo Cigognini
    Commented Nov 15, 2023 at 13:06

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