From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 15:24:11 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 5470616A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:24:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outgoing.redshift.com (outgoing.redshift.com [207.177.231.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF6243D1D for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from workstation (216-228-19-21.dsl.redshift.com [216.228.19.21]) by outgoing.redshift.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2727497098; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20050409082502.00ab7730@pop.redshift.com> X-Mailer: na X-Sender: redshift.com Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:25:02 -0700 To: "Sunil Sunder Raj" , joseph.koshy@gmail.com From: ray@redshift.com In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.1.32.20050310193015.00a7e908@pop.redshift.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 15:24:11 -0000 Thanks Sunil, I'm running a completely stripped down apache and PHP config here. As you say, it makes a huge difference if you don't rely on those modules. Thanks! Ray At 10:10 AM 4/9/2005 +0000, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: | 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" | | | |