----- "Reber Simon" <li...@cgi-net.ch> wrote: > Dear all, > > We have a web application with about 5000 hits per second. > The apache server is running on Red Hat AS 4.x with version 2.0.52 and > prefork MPM.
2.2 with worker MPM should be well able to deliever substantially better performance, do you have to use the OS httpd? > The question I have is, how I should configure prefork to manage this > amount of requests. > > I had something like that in mind: > > <IfModule prefork.c> > StartServers 100 > MinSpareServers 10 > MaxSpareServers 10 > ServerLimit 8000 > MaxClients 5120 > MaxRequestsPerChild 2000 > </IfModule> Is there good reason to keep MaxRequestsPerChild this low? It means rather frequent recycling > As the requests are only some kind of "ping" do I also plan to disable > KeepAlive. Especially with KeepAlive Off. > Do you think this will work, or do you have any other suggestion? It all depends on what kind of service you're offering, what it does, how long a request takes to process, what kind of hardware it's running on, etc.. > Thanks and all the best, > Si Bye, -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 699 122 96 338 Fax: +43(0) 1 91 333 41 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
