Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:03:20 -0400 From: "bill" <bill@TechServSys.com> To: freeBSD-Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: slooooow httpd serving Message-ID: <3D64A8D8.23214.6D97D@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3D649213.15749.1407CF99@localhost>
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On 22 Aug 2002 at 7:26, bill wrote: > I have more or less successfully built my first freeBSD system to be a > webserver and configured Apache for virtual hosts and all seems well, except: > > when it is serving a large (100k) graphic it is slower than mud going uphill. > > hardware: > 485-66, 32Mb ram > The nic is an intel pro/10 > scsi disk subsystem with an adaptec 1542c (I think it is a c, not sure - but it > ran a complex database application before it was retired for a faster machine) > > Top says: > load averages 0.00 0.01 0.00 > top is using 0.93% > sendmail is using 0.00 > httpd is using 0.00 > > watching top I see that httpd goes to RUN about once every 3 seconds. > > > netstat shows a very large send q: 33580 until the browser apparently gives > up. > when I reload the page the q goes up again and it _finishes_ displaying the > image. > > I could use some help in figuring out what is so slow. > > Also, may or may not be related: I have not configured Sendmail yet and it > gets unhappy and panics every morning when it can't deliver something. > > -bill- > Addendum: it serves lots of small images and the httpd pages quite quickly, it seems only to be the large (>100k) images that slow down so much. The server is on a 10Mb/s segment of a LAN. The client is on a 100Mb/s segment of the lan. The current production server is on a 100Mb/s segment of the lan and serves the large pictures in under 1 sec. There is only one computer on each LAN segment and the switch is a 10/100 linksys. -bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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