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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!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu!grail From: Giao Nguyen <grail@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> 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: 17 Nov 1996 20:39:22 GMT Organization: ACM Student Machine Lines: 31 Message-ID: <56nt5q$i4g@solaris.cc.vt.edu> 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> <32838E9D.4F4F@www.play-hookey.com> <56mkj8$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu NNTP-Posting-User: grail X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961025] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31200 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5295 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: : Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: : > > 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. : > Hmmm. Since Apache is reliable (and it has been very much so, for me), : > that would seem to imply no need to hide bunches of bugs. I also : > seriously wonder about your '32 MB' figure -- by default, [...] : > Since my server only *has* 32 MB of RAM (and isn't all that : > busy, yet), and top still reports plenty of unused memory available even : > while hits are taking place, that figure cannot be a fixed number. : Well, to second this, my machine at work is also running Apache with Well, the 32MB figure is *very* interesting. I'm running apache, along with a primary nameserver, ftp server, and use it as my own personal machine and I've never had this memory problem. About a weekend or two ago, I was working on a project with a closing due date. Just out of curiousity I checked up on the apache access logs. It was showing close to 2000+ hits in that one day alone. Apparently everyone in my class was checking out the wxWindows materials at my site. In any case, I couldn't tell any performance problems with 12-16 preforked apache servers and my debug/development work. -- Giao Nguyen Computer Science Student Will program for food