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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!realtime.net!news From: greg@ccom.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apache & BSD Netowrk problems Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:32 GMT Organization: Compass Communications, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <840845124.21861@dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bastion.dejanews.com X-RTcode: 7b9d37a432e08986ae1e499a X-Originating-IP-addr: 205.199.131.4 (apollo.ccom.net) In article <4vbeaa$f2l@news1.halcyon.com>, dorian@coho.halcyon.com (Aaron Mitchell) wrote: > > I'm having some problems keeping my web server system (P5-133 96 megs RAM > ISA NE2000 Network Card, Scsi Saturn 2gig) up. I am web hosting a > customer who gets about 10,000 visiotors a day, but as soon as I put him > on the server it continually crashes as soon as apache opens too many > servers to respond to requests. The default apache MaxClients is 150, > which I lowered to 60, but it will still crash unless I top it out around > 45 or 50. The machine was running on 32 megs of ram (which I upgraded to > 96 thinking that apache was crashing due to going into swap) but it still > crashes around the same hit load. Could this be a problem with a poor > network card (generic NE2000) I will be putting in a 3c509 tomorrow, but > if that doesn't work I'll be about ready to ditch it and buy an UltraSPARC > (which I would rather not do). Does anyone have any ideas on how to get > this web server back into shape? (Please reply by email if possible) Thank > you. > Aaron Mitchell > dorian@halcyon.com > Hey Aaron! We have our Sparc 2's running 64MB RAM, and I actually want to INCREASE the MaxClients above 150, are you sure that's the problem? Our P133 (Aphrodite) was running 64M, and she did great for a very long time. Our SMC cards have really worked out well, you might try those. The Ultra would be a great solution too. They kick major ass! You have to learn Solaris though. I'm ordering one Monday. Peace, Greg greg@ccom.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was posted to Usenet via the Posting Service at Deja News: http://www.dejanews.com/ [Search, Post, and Read Usenet News!]