Bug 55763 - raise roots soft RLIMIT_NPROC on linux for high maxclients?
Summary: raise roots soft RLIMIT_NPROC on linux for high maxclients?
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Apache httpd-2
Classification: Unclassified
Component: mpm_worker (show other bugs)
Version: 2.4.6
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List
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Reported: 2013-11-09 12:51 UTC by Eric Covener
Modified: 2013-11-09 12:51 UTC (History)
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Description Eric Covener 2013-11-09 12:51:47 UTC 
httpd often fails in OOTB configuration on RHEL6 if MaxClients is increased, due to a soft limit of 1024 on RLIMIT_NPROC. Previous OS releases had much more generous soft limits by default.

It seems like httpd should try to increase the soft limit. For some reason the core RLimitNPROC does not do the job. It has very confusing documentation, and regardless I would prefer something relative to configured max clients and used by default.