Apache acting crazy !!!!

[ammarabdulsalam]

http://java-monitor.com/postedimages/5dddb83d-e961-4d74-b9e1-3ff9e44fbc89.png

hi everyone

can anyone tell me what is going on with apache ?
everything else in the server is running normally.

[Kees de Kooter]

What amount of active sessions do you expect?

[kjkoster]

Dear ammarabdulsalam,

It does not look all that strange to me. You have a moderate load that rises and falls with the day and sometimes there is a peak.

This is likely due to a peak in demand (suddenly a lot of users hit your system). You can use the access log to see what all these users are doing.

What did you expect to see?

Kees Jan

[ammarabdulsalam]

hi ,

we expect up to 1000 connections at weekends .
we host a tv channel's website on a dedicated server and the 80% of connections are for video streaming and sometimes the server is going down but the server load is less than 1 .
and i want to ask how many connections can i run on my server with the following specifications:
quad core xeon processor
8GB ram
1GB lan

and what is the max connection number for apache can handle ?
and is there another program than apache to handle video files to reduce connection number on apache server ?

thank yo very much for your help

Regards

[kjkoster]

Dear ammarabdulsalam,

Your machine should be able to handle that load easily. Tomcat also. 1000 connections is piss-all. You say unix load is 1, which is really low for that hardware. So something else is happening.

I am curious about this 'going down' you speak of. Anything in the logs at such a time? What happens precisely?

Are you running out of file descriptors maybe? Memory?
Kees Jan

[ammarabdulsalam]

Dear ammarabdulsalam,

Your machine should be able to handle that load easily. Tomcat also. 1000 connections is piss-all. You say unix load is 1, which is really low for that hardware. So something else is happening.

I am curious about this 'going down' you speak of. Anything in the logs at such a time? What happens precisely?

Are you running out of file descriptors maybe? Memory?
Kees Jan

You can check our system load by
http://178.162.190.135/server-status
and here is a Java-monitor status page:
http://www.bannan-co.com/status/

Thanks

[kjkoster]

Well, that all looks fine to me.

Anything in the tomcat logs that explain the outages?