From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 12: 4:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from devsys.jaguNET.com (devsys.jaguNET.com [209.133.192.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE4137B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by devsys.jaguNET.com (8.9.3/jag-2.6) id PAA07927; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:03:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <200008281903.PAA07927@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? To: nepolon@systray.com (Steve Lewis) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:03:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), jepace@pobox.com (James E. Pace), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jim@jaguNET.com In-Reply-To: from "Steve Lewis" at Aug 28, 2000 12:03:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Lewis wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > What do you recommend for a web server if Apache is "entirely useless" may > > > I ask? > > > > Zues, thttpd, roxen, there's a lot out there that are a lot faster. > > > > Supposedly Zues is king. > > Do you happen to know what these do better than apache? To some, anything that says "threaded" is automatically better. Whether it is or it isn't. :) > > Does anyone know of a good FAQ or other resource on load balancing with > apache? > There are numerous heavy-use sites using Apache 1.3 as, at the least, their main front-end, using reverse proxy to offload requests to backend servers, also running Apache. WebTechniques has, I believe, such an article. Since Apache 1.3 uses preforking, the key is having enough open process slots available, enough memory for those processes so you don't go into swap, and ensuring that keepalives are enabled so that a significant portion of those "simultaneous" requests are pipelined. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] jim@jaguNET.com [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate??" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message