Apache Log : Internal Dummy Connection

[asyadiqin]

we have had problems on one of our servers recently.
Pages start to load slowly and ultimately the server becomes overwhelmed.

The only suspicious entry in the logs is


::1 - - [03/May/2007:11:22:21 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 3931 "-" "Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) (internal dummy connection)"


This starts off happening every few minutes but then continues to happen with increasing regualrity - ultimately every second.

Thank you.

[Hans]

Hi,

This warning occurs on Apache 2.2+ systems.
Try to solve that by setting MaxSpareServers to a value, greater than MinSpareServers within your Apache configuration file and restart Apache.

[asyadiqin]

Hi,

This warning occurs on Apache 2.2+ systems.
Try to solve that by setting MaxSpareServers to a value, greater than MinSpareServers within your Apache configuration file and restart Apache.

Below is content of my httpd.conf referring to the configuration you specified.


<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 8
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 500
</IfModule>

<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>


So apparently, that is not the caused. Any other ideas?