>MaxClients was too low?? Doesn't that default to at least 100 or
>something?

that's true : 50.

>You are running this on an old 68k box, right? You have RAM
>enough for this number of connections? (apache prcesses)? I may be lost,
>but I don't see how MaxClients was the culprit (unless you had it set to
>less than 10 or something).

my MaxClient was 15 : a friend suggested me to set it very low to 
avoid using too much proc ...
yes, it realy didn't use a lot of proc. Not enough after all :-)

>Be aware that if you set this too high your
>whole machine will crash when you run out of RAM/swap. I know, I have done
>it.

ho, I don't think it will be a probleme : my quadra have something 
like 136Mo of ram. I think it should be enough :-).
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