--cut here--
# Limit on total number of servers running, i.e., limit on the number
# of clients who can simultaneously connect --- if this limit is ever
# reached, clients will be LOCKED OUT, so it should NOT BE SET TOO LOW.
# It is intended mainly as a brake to keep a runaway server from taking
# Unix with it as it spirals down...
MaxClients 150
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My guess this was set too low..
Also, they should have also increased the prefork min and start
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Michael Brennen wrote:
> I've cut out most of the article below; the full text is online at the URL
> listed. Infoworld did a Web server comparison, and to my surprise the
> Apache / Linux configuration did not do well at all. Considering what it
> was up against in the Netscape and M$ configurations, something must have
> been seriously wrong with the Apache / Linux test rig. BTW I don't know
> how a Linux Hardware Solutions 2000P platform is built.
>
> Infoworld is widely enough read that the article will be negative to
> corporate management. Since David Miller posted some Web benchmarks after
> reworking the networking code (which I don't remember in detail) and got
> strong results, I thought I would post this for comment from others that
> might have insight into the poor performance shown.
> -- Michael