MaxClients actually tells the apache to allow this many concurrent clients.
Normally this limit is at 150. You can change this limit by editing your httpd.conf file.
httpd.conf is normally located at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
ServerLimit directive to let the value of MaxClients above 256 work.
By deafult ServerLimit is 256 (and is usually not already there in httpd.conf). If it is in your httpd.conf increase it above 256 or if it is not there add it in your httpd.conf