WARNING: MaxClients of 3000 exceeds compile time limit of 2048 servers,
lowering MaxClients to 2048. To increase, please see the
HARD_SERVER_LIMIT define in src/include/httpd.h.

Why increase MaxClients to 2048? Apache 1.x is
non-threaded, so increasing MaxClients beyond 256 usually results in
lower performance; often dramatically lower performance. At a prior
job I worked with a customer trying to optimize Apache 1.3x; found
that pumping up values like MaxClient was counter-productive. Go
ahead and try, but the limits are set for a reason.