Bug 73433

Summary:	apache/httpd.h HARD_SERVER_LIMIT too small
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Paul Thublin <paul>
Component:	httpd	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	jabapi
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Description Paul Thublin 2002-09-04 17:47:25 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; H010818; 
T312461; Hewlett-Packard IE5.5-SP2)

Description of problem:
The Apache config directive MaxClients is limited by a hard-compiled
constant in httpd.h called HARD_SERVER_LIMIT.  For Linux, this limit
is set to 256, which is woefully inadequate for today's systems that
may need to have as many as 2048 concurrent clients.

Please up the hard limit in your base distro to 2048.  If customers
do not want that many servers running (say because they're on an older
system), then they can manually lower the MaxClients config variable
to whatever they want, but there's nothing short of a recompile that
we can do to go higher.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Hand-edit the apache httpd.conf file to set MaxClients higher than 256.  Start 
the server.  Observe that the server reports that it is automatically resetting 
the value back to the hard-compiled limit.	

Actual Results:  The server reported that it was automatically resetting the 
limit back down to the hard-compiled limit of 256.

Expected Results:  It would be nice to see the server able to set the 
MaxClients limit as high as 2048.

Additional info:

This can be worked around by recompiling the apache httpd binary, but this is 
not an option for everyone (strict software appropriation standards, no 
development platform, etc.)

Comment 1 Paul Thublin 2002-09-04 17:49:02 UTC

I'd really like this for 7.2 and later versions of RedHat, also.

Thanks!

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2002-09-18 15:43:41 UTC

Refiling against Apache 2.0 package.

Comment 3 Janne Pikkarainen 2002-12-10 09:56:47 UTC

In Apache 2.0 this limit can be changed via the httpd.conf's ServerLimit
configuration value.

For example:

ServerLimit 2048
MaxClients 2048

Working for me in Apache 2 bundled with Red Hat 8.0.

Comment 4 Joe Orton 2003-03-04 11:02:13 UTC

As noted, this works in 2.0. It's hard (if not impossible) to fix for 1.3
without changing the binary module interface.