Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:10:06 +0000 From: "Sunil Sunder Raj" <unixtools@hotmail.com> To: ray@redshift.com, joseph.koshy@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance modifications Message-ID: <BAY21-F32D6D953407EBDBD4797DBAE300@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20050310193015.00a7e908@pop.redshift.com>
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Hi, There a a few apache config changes which really bump up the performance. Disable mod_status.so which decreases a few system calls. Disable FollowSymLinks wherever used. If possible remove the <Directory /> directive. Regards SSR >From: ray@redshift.com >To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> >CC: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: performance modifications >Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:30:15 -0800 > >| > I'm wondering if anyone on the list has a good source for >| > the major sysctl settings and/or kernel settings that can be >| > modified in order to bring up the performance level on a >| > FreeBSD 5.3 machine that is used with apache under heavy >| > load. >| >| There is the tuning(7) manual page. > >Yes, have read those from start to finish. Just wondering if there are >other >areas to look into that may not be covered there. > >| There are better web servers than Apache for demanding loads; >| ones that used a non-forking, event-driven I/O model. >| Aolserver and thttpd come to mind. > >I tried thttpd a number of years ago, but due to its limited cgi support >(at >least at the time) I didn't do too much with it. It did seem fast, >however. > >| Yaoping Ruan and Vivek Pai from Princeton have reported >| excellent results with their "Flash" [1] web server. While >| many of their recommended changes to FreeBSD have been folded >| into the base source, I'm not sure how many popular web-servers >| are using these speedups. >| >| [1] Making the "Box" Transparent: System Call Performance as a >| First-class Result >| Yaoping Ruan, Vivek Pai >| http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/debox.pdf > >Okay, great, thanks. I'll check into that area. My biggest problem right >now >is that PHP brings down the speed of everything. I may have to go back to >Perl >and use mod_perl or look into some other alternatives. The main thing I >wanted >to do was get the OS running at it's best, so the benchmarks were not being >affected by some area of FreeBSD. > >Anyway, thanks very much for the info! > >Ray > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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