MaxClients Directive & KeepAlive

Hi,

I'm not sure if anyone can help but its worth a try.

Background:
* Linode 2GB Plan + Fedora 21 + Apache
* Currently, there are no clients as the Development team is testing the application for production readiness.

Problem

Initially, the server response was great but now it is very slow. If a Tester tries to upload 10 photos the server can take up to 1 minute to upload, and in some cases the server times out. In previous weeks, this would take only 5-7 seconds.

Actions
* 1) No configuration changes were made that could explain the sudden slow response, the issue seems to have just started on its own.
* 2) I am not sure if this has to do with Apache settings, so I started looking into the MaxClients directive. I noticed that there was no directives in the initial httpd.conf file.
* 3) Based on the Linode Guide below, I decided to add the MaxClients directive into the httpd.conf file as outlined. I did some calculations to determine the MaxClients value and the number based on processes running and RAM is 36. However, I kept the value of 30 shown in the Linode Guide.

Results
* The response it still slow, with no apparent gains.

Questions
* 1) Does anyone know if this is correct and will this directive work for both port 80 and 443?
* 2) Also, is the module setting significant (prefork, worker, event)?
* 3) I am not sure what module was used when installing Apache, is there a way to check?

Any assistance and/or direction is much appreciated.

Thanks,

R

–---------------httpd.conf------------------------

KeepAlive Off

StartServers 2

MinSpareServers 6

MaxSpareServers 12

MaxClients 30

MaxRequestsPerChild 3000

-----------------httpd.conf------------------------

Linode Guide https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/ho … -linode-1g">https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/hosting-a-website#optimizing-apache-for-a-linode-1g