Apache2 crash on Ubuntu 14.04 MaxRequestWorkers issue

Posted on April 23, 2015

MySQL

Apache

PHP

LAMP Stack

PHP Frameworks

By Vincent Gross

I’ve setup a server with LAMP stack on ubuntu 14.04 but Apache keep crashing randomly.

I’ve followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-optimize-apache-web-server-performance

The Apache error log shows:

AH00484: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting

and multiple:

AH00045: child process 12845 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM

before the crash. I’ve many websites in production on this server and I really want to fix it as soon as I can (that will save my nights) :-)

Is anyone has the same issue or can help me?

Thanks a lot

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clare

May 13, 2015

I am having exactly the same issue and error message

Vincent Gross

May 14, 2015

Yes,

I have raised this number for instance and I have less crash at the moment. But it’s a quick fix and I don’t really like this. If you find a better solution please let me know. :-)