Was it just an IP exhausting the apache service with too many connections?  
What do you see in the access logs?  I use OSSEC HIDS on my apache servers to 
mitigate this.
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Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> My server has 4GB RAM and uses nginx as a reverse proxy to apache.  A
>> little while ago my website became inaccessible for about 30 minutes.
>> I checked my munin graphs and it looks like apache processes spiked to
>> about 29 during this time which is many times greater than usual.  I
>> have MaxClients at 30 and the error log verifies that MaxClients was
>> not reached.  The strange part is system disk latency shows a spike
>> during the interruption which is only very slightly greater than other
>> spikes which did not interrupt service.  System CPU, memory, and swap
>> usage don't show anything interesting at all.
>>
>> Does this make sense to anyone?  Should I decrease MaxClients?
>>
>> - Grant
>
>I've looked over my access_log and I can see there is a particular IP
>which was making many requests during the interruption.  Since munin
>does not show there was an excessive amount of memory or CPU usage,
>lowering MaxClients won't help?
>
>- Grant
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