I have an apache http server.
Recently, my server became overloaded, resulting that the service was no longer answering any http requests(the last answer was 503).
Even when the server was no longer overloaded, the service had not come back on its feet.
Only restarting the service about 50 minutes later, resurrected the service (and since then all is fine).
My site is run by a php script. Which probably , because a very long loop had overloaded the server's resources.
My question, is how I make apache, tolerant to such overloading, and not collapsing totally.
thanks.