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From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System Tune for Apache
Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:28:20 +0100
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Michael A. Dorin (mad@adc.com) said:
: My web site, http://www.chaski.com, is now accesses per day.

: I have not changed any of the parameters...The system is configured
: as it was strait out of the box.

: Can anybody recommend what kernel or apache tuning I should do at this
: time?

Many people recommend running Squid or Harvest as a http accelerator for
Apache.  This serves requests from an internal object cache, rather than
relying on disk accesses or the buffer cache.  I hear it works quite well.

Nick
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