AH00161: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting

Question

I\'ve got a quite busy server: PHP (Wordpress) using W3TotalCache APC, Varnish for Apache and Cloudflare to handle all traffic. Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

Only one website with

Answer 1

You modified the wrong file. Your log says "mpm_prefork" error. So you need to modify mpm_prefork.conf rather than mpm_worker.conf.

You can also use "apachectl -M" to see what module you are using. e.g. My apache2 is using mpm_event_module, so i need to modify mpm_event.conf

$ apache2ctl -M
Loaded Modules:
 core_module (static)
 so_module (static)
 watchdog_module (static)
 http_module (static)
 log_config_module (static)
 logio_module (static)
 version_module (static)
 unixd_module (static)
 access_compat_module (shared)
 alias_module (shared)
 auth_basic_module (shared)
 authn_core_module (shared)
 authn_file_module (shared)
 authz_core_module (shared)
 authz_host_module (shared)
 authz_user_module (shared)
 autoindex_module (shared)
 deflate_module (shared)
 dir_module (shared)
 env_module (shared)
 filter_module (shared)
 mime_module (shared)
 **mpm_event_module (shared)**
 negotiation_module (shared)
 setenvif_module (shared)
 status_module (shared)
 wsgi_module (shared)