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From: jhenders@wimsey.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Tuning BSD as Web Server (was Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?)
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:31:02 -0700
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In <WINDLEY.96Sep20085157@margay.cs.byu.edu> windley@lal.cs.byu.edu (Phillip J. Windley) writes:

>Anyone with experience in this who is willing to share tips on tuning BSD
>to handle hundreds of hits per second?

Check out the Apache site. There's a section there on tuning BSDI and it
covers about everything that I found necessary to make BSDI keep up
with a busy server.


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John Henders  - System Administrator - Mindlink!/Wimsey