Re: Linux and Apache performance, Update

Juergen Schmidt (ju@ct.heise.de)
Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:57:15 +0200

Brian wrote:
> Did you increase the max number of file descriptors on the linux box? Did
> you up the number of apaches that can run (their is a hard limit set in
> src/include/httpd.h of 256 that needs to be increased), Did you up the
> number of servers on apache? Did you up the number of maximum tasks in
> src/include/linux/tasks.h to at least double its default?

Yes to all of those :-)

But neither of them is really relevant for performance, when serving
plain static HTML-pages out of the buffer cache.

The only time I really needed more apaches, tasks and FDs was under high
load with CGI-scripts

thanks, ju

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