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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.anet-dfw.com!zeus.anet-dfw.com!davidb From: davidb@zeus.anet-dfw.com (David Bauman) 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: 11 Nov 1996 17:42:24 GMT Organization: ANET-USA 1-800-776-8894 Lines: 41 Message-ID: <567oi0$89e@news1.anet-dfw.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51rsu5$6je@flash.noc.best.net> <WINDLEY.96Sep20085157@margay.cs.byu.edu> <Dy33xK.GvE@interactive.net> <527jh9$88p@gol1.gol.com> <32482B53.6935@www.play-hookey.com> <5600s5$l1l@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.anet-dfw.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30892 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5248 Winfried Truemper (truemper@elfi.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE) wrote: : 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. I run a apache server which gets close to a million hits a day spanned over all the virtual server which are running on it. I have no problems with system performance, or system crashes. The only problem I run into is the mass log rotation that is needed for our billing structure. I am using the bsdi rotate script found in the basic /etc/*.daily files. Apache is not only reliable, but it is a very good server. It implements features of both NCSA and CERN and outperforms Microsoft ISS on a NT platform. I like having idle httpd processes (not too many) to handle a mass influx of httpd requests. DB