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.
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Rafiq Ismail
Software Engineer and Systems Administrator
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