From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:41:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.deadbbs.com (hermes.cpetc.com [207.137.157.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781B437B43E for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from erinlaptop (mongo.sdccd.cc.ca.us [209.129.16.5]) by hermes.deadbbs.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e7SIgQq19168; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:42:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Erin" To: "'Alfred Perlstein'" , "'James E. Pace'" Cc: Subject: RE: Scaling Apache? Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:40:46 -0700 Message-ID: <002a01c0111f$7b3b0de0$e815820a@sdccd.cc.ca.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <20000828113233.X1209@fw.wintelcom.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > * James E. Pace [000828 11:23] wrote: > > > > I've got a 2 way Pentium III / 550MHz system with 1GB of > memory running > > 4.1-STABLE. > > > > For a project I'm working on, I need to have a webserver > handle thousands > > (and 10's of thousands) of simultaneous connections. To do > this, it > > seems the best way is to have lots and LOTS of apache's > httpds running > > at all times. > > [snip] > > apache is entirely useless for high amounts of traffic, you should be > investigating another webserver or looking at a > clustering/load-balancing > solution. This almost scares me. If apache can not handle it, where do you go? IIS? It might be time to start looking into apache 2, but it's still in alpha. I tend to agree with Alfred (no suprise there), you need to look into a server farm with load-balancing. Erin mailto:kahn@deadbbs.com http://www.deadbbs.com http://www.fortenberry.net Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message