server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

[Anay]

I saw server error and my server was getting slow. I checked apache log files in /var/log/httpd and error log shows following error at the end of line:

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server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

But I dont see there was any spike in traffic then why I get this error? How I determine right number of maxClients ?

[Jaffery]

May be your MaxClients settings is too low, consider raising it or show us your httpd.conf file.