title: Ubuntu apache error server reached MaxRequestWorkers on increase to 1024
body: <p>Need help for my apache errors,</p>
  
  <p>I am getting these errors from error log file</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Thu Jul 27 12:16:05.788246 2017] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 18180] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
  [Thu Jul 27 12:19:54.149332 2017] [mpm_prefork:error] [pid 19376] AH00161: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My settings(mpm_prefork.conf) :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mpm_prefork_module&gt;
      StartServers                     5
      MinSpareServers           5
      MaxSpareServers          10
      MaxRequestWorkers         1024
      ServerLimit               256
      MaxConnectionsPerChild   0
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Increasing MaxRequestWorkers not solving this issue, kindly help where i am going wrong.</p>