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From: jason@webmaster.net (Jason R. Mastaler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: kernel tuning for netscape www server
Date: 02 Feb 1996 14:33:06 -0500
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In-reply-to: cjk@omedsrvb.omed.pitt.edu's message of 29 Jan 1996 12:55:39 GMT
To: cjk@omedsrvb.omed.pitt.edu (Carl Joel Kuzmich)
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On 29 Jan 1996 12:55:39 GMT, cjk@omedsrvb.omed.pitt.edu (Carl Joel Kuzmich) said:

> Are there any things that can be "tuned" in the kernel that will improve 
> performance of my www server.

> I have a pentium-133 with 128mb ram and am running a netscape commerce 
> server software....

> The reason I'm asking is that it seems to "hang" or "stall" every now and
> then ...... ie. if I telnet to the machine it seems to lock-up the session
> or freeze so that I have to then create another telnet session to kill the 
> previous process??? Also, when accessing a web page it will at times will
> not download a full page.... I have checked to see if it is being caused by
> lots of traffic but this is not the case at all..... Sometimes I'm the only
> one on the machine when this happens???

The folks at Apache put out some helpful hints on running a high
performance web server.  Does your server take a great deal of hits?  
Take a look at:

  http://www.apache.org/docs/perf.html

-- Jason