Apache Web Server goes down very often

[alphaque]

Hi
i have setup a dedicated server to host a few high traffics proxy sites. I am running apache 2.1 with P4 1.8Ghz

The apache web server is very unstable, it is always crashes and i have to restart it many times in a day, below are the common error message i see in the error log when the server is crashed :

[Tue Jun 5 07:52:47 2007] [warn] child process 19413 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Tue Jun 5 07:52:51 2007] [error] child process 19413 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Tue Jun 5 07:52:51 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

Can anyone has any idea on how to fix this issue ? Is my server overloaded that caused the server crashes ? What is the best configurations i can have for my httpd.conf to handle the high number of concurrent connections and high traffics to the server ?


thanks
rgds..sean

 

[RhythmAce]

What OS is it running on?

 

[alphaque]

Hi
it is running on centos 4.5, sorry the apache version i am running is 1.3.37 and it is not 2.2 as i stated above

it is a high traffics server since i am hosting the proxy sites there.

pls advice what can i do to prevent the apache server from shutting down itself


thanks
cheers..sean

 

[RhythmAce]

Is this a Windows machine?

 

[Kozusnik]

In one of the configs in /etc/httpd there should be lines for max servers, max startup servers, and several others. You may want to fiddle with them. How much RAM do you have? Always a factor.

Mark