Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:59:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? Message-ID: <14762.57550.978229.547878@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20000828143857.B18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <17477616@toto.iv> <14762.56098.997893.119112@guru.mired.org> <20000828143857.B18862@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein writes: > * Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> [000828 14:36] wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > * Steve Lewis <nepolon@systray.com> [000828 11:53] 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? > > > "everything", apache needs a process to handle each request > > Huh? That stopped being true a *long* time ago. Last time I looked at > > the default config, the number of requests a process would handle was > > set very low, but that is trivially fixable. > I'm aware of the way that it keeps the processes around for to grab the > next request, it's still not good enough. It's the MaxRequestsPerChild > or something 'tunable'. Well, they prefer the phrase "configurable". The default configuration is reasonable for the vast majority of sites. To get reasonable performance out of it, you need to seriously raise the numbers - to the point where it's sucking down most of the machine. My general reaction is that HTTP is simple enough (well, before they made it complicated) that the only reason to run a general-purpose web server is because you have a general-purpose web site. For anything special purpose, you're better off with something custom-tailored to that purpose. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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