I know this is a bit off topic, but I could use some immediate advise on server config?
Got a server which is getting hit really bad. Have to keep it up. I've got: P Timeout 300 # Keepalive, better on this server... KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 KeepAliveTimeout 5 # performance services MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 50 StartServers 20 StartServers 20 MaxClients 250 Pings look like: 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=1069.3 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=984.8 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=1138.9 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=1567.1 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=1622.3 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=5 ttl=244 time=1382.8 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=6 ttl=244 time=1145.5 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=7 ttl=244 time=1065.6 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=8 ttl=244 time=1133.6 ms There are some really graphic intensive pages here, however I'm not sure if Keep alive is good when there's lots of contention for pages. Should I: i) disable keep alive? ii) reduce the keep alive time out ? iii) up my number for max spare servers? Since i've not maxed out on load or memory, perhaps more idle servers will reduce the contention for apache children? My intutition is that since the server is obviously in trouble, resource wise, perhaps increasing the number of daemons will relieve the load. Not sure. It's a big box. Any ideas? iv) Something else? I'd appreciate some suggestions. Thanks, R. -- Rafiq Ismail Software Engineer and Systems Administrator http://www.codix.net "All the best people in life seem to like Linux." - Steve Wozniak