> Ok, there's one area where I've had trouble with Apache performance, > and that's in serving very big files. If you've got a lot of people > downloading 100 MB files via dialup connections, the process count can > get uncomfortably high. I've tried a number of the 'single process' web
My expericen with dialup or satcom links is that such is mostly a function of the OS and its TCP stack. Apart from upping the obvious it can help to disallow (or intentionally) allow large buffers on OS level and/or tune the moment the lingering starts to let apache off the hook again. The behavioural differences between BSD, Linxu and Solaris are enourmous for this type of workload. Dw
