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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!news.michiana.org!aonline!news.u.washington.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news4.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!not-for-mail From: truemper@elfi.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Winfried Truemper) 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?) Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Date: 8 Nov 1996 19:15:17 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5600s5$l1l@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51rsu5$6je@flash.noc.best.net> <WINDLEY.96Sep20085157@margay.cs.byu.edu> <Dy33xK.GvE@interactive.net> <527jh9$88p@gol1.gol.com> <32482B53.6935@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: elfi.mi.uni-koeln.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30796 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5241 Peter Evans wrote: : I think the best one is probably "retire apache" and use a : decent server that doesnt spawn itself left right and silly. : I quite like spinner, or roxen, or whatever it is called : today. (http://www.roxen.com/ ??) I tried in on a machine with 600.000 hits/day and it crashed after 2 hours. Seems like Roxen*Challenger is currently not able to drive really large sites. Sad, I liked the flexible and easy configuration of it. Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote: : Oh, come now! Yes, if you run Apache in stand-alone mode it will : maintain between 5 and 10 (by default -- adjustable) idle httpd servers : waiting for access requests. This is for faster response. Funny that people believe this apache-PR. Most servers run in "forking mode" to hide bugs. On large sites the "idle httpd servers" cost you additional 32MB of memory without any advantage. See http://www.probe.net/~mgleason/ncftpd/perf.html for a comparism between an old forking ftpd and a non-forking version. Apache is reliable that's the only advantage of it. -Winfried