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I'm trying to avoid a situation where I'm running out of ram resulting in the server locking up (oom-killer).

To achieve this I'm trying to update my Amazon Linux AMI instance to limit the number of simultaneous connections.

I have Apache 2.4 and following this guide, added the following to my httpd.conf:

MaxRequestWorkers = 112
ServerLimit = 112

However this results in the following warning on httpd restart:

"MaxRequestWorkers takes one argument, Maximum number of children alive at the same time"

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    nginx use significantly less ram than apache, nginx can easily handle 5,000 connections with less ram than it takes apache to handle 10 connections >.> you could try switching to nginx and see if that helps. - help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/…
    – hanshenrik
    Nov 20, 2018 at 16:38

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The tutorial you followed has a pretty blatant error. Apache directives do not have an = character between the directive name and value.

The directives should read:

MaxRequestWorkers 112
ServerLimit 112

Keep in mind that this isn't likely to help all that much. The first thing you should do is switch to the event MPM (and php-fpm for PHP usage). If you are still using the 25 year old prefork MPM you are sacrificing a lot of performance and memory for little good reason. Just making this switch is likely to reduce your OOM issues while increasing performance dramatically.

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