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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.is.net!news 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 Organization: Atlanta Webmasters Lines: 23 Sender: jason@xxx.webmaster.net Message-ID: <x54tt9bk0d.fsf@xxx.webmaster.net> References: <4eig4b$r9@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: xxx.webmaster.net 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) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.13 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