From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 10:10:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994C016A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:10:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay21-f32.bay21.hotmail.com [65.54.233.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4265143D2F for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:10:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from unixtools@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:10:07 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 203.199.109.161 by by21fd.bay21.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:10:06 GMT X-Originating-IP: [203.199.109.161] X-Originating-Email: [unixtools@hotmail.com] X-Sender: unixtools@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20050310193015.00a7e908@pop.redshift.com> From: "Sunil Sunder Raj" To: ray@redshift.com, joseph.koshy@gmail.com Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:10:06 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Apr 2005 10:10:07.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[4E1BA470:01C53CEC] cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance modifications X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:10:07 -0000 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 directive. Regards SSR >From: ray@redshift.com >To: Joseph Koshy >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"