HTTP Plugin and the MaxClients setting

[George A. Theall]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 01:25:35PM -0500, MHewryk at symcor.com
wrote:

> Do you know which Nessus' Plugin is responsible for
> testing HTTP server in terms of numbers of hits?  

Someone will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
think there's a plugin like this.

> I've got
> the message on the server that the MaxClients setting is
> reached.  

Consult your web server's log to see what requests were
being serviced when this error occured. It may be related to
DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl (plugin #11032), which makes
close to 800 requests in attempts to locate various common
directories on a web server, and/or the number of
web-related plugins being run simultaneously. Regardless,
you may want to tweak the settings for MaxClients and/or
MaxRequestsPerChild are rather low on that target to better
handle higher loads.

George

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