I have project with apache(2.4) and php(7.2), which apache uses mpm_fork how can I increase max connections in apache to handle 10,000 cocurrent connections ? I'm testing with https://loader.io , It just can handle max to 5000 concurrent connections ( in 15 s ).
this is my current apache config :
DefaultRuntimeDir ${APACHE_RUN_DIR}
Timeout 300
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 100
MinSpareServers 100
MaxSpareServers 100
ServerLimit 10000
MaxClients 10000
MaxRequestWorkers 10000
MaxRequestsPerChild 4000
</IfModule>
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 1000
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
Include ports.conf
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
ServerName localhost
consider, there is no problem with my hardware, I checked my resource usage, I never passed 20 % usage of cpu and memory during my tests.
The best tuning I found for Apache which already working on my server perfectly is this part :
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 20
MinSpareServers 20
MaxSpareServers 50
ServerLimit 5000
MaxRequestWorkers 5000
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
</IfModule>
I belive this config is good for high traffic servers.