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From: greg@ccom.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache & BSD Netowrk problems
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:32 GMT
Organization: Compass Communications, Inc.
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In article <4vbeaa$f2l@news1.halcyon.com>,
dorian@coho.halcyon.com (Aaron Mitchell) wrote:
>
> I'm having some problems keeping my web server system (P5-133 96 megs RAM
> ISA NE2000 Network Card, Scsi Saturn 2gig) up. I am web hosting a
> customer who gets about 10,000 visiotors a day, but as soon as I put him
> on the server it continually crashes as soon as apache opens too many
> servers to respond to requests. The default apache MaxClients is 150,
> which I lowered to 60, but it will still crash unless I top it out around
> 45 or 50. The machine was running on 32 megs of ram (which I upgraded to
> 96 thinking that apache was crashing due to going into swap) but it still
> crashes around the same hit load. Could this be a problem with a poor
> network card (generic NE2000) I will be putting in a 3c509 tomorrow, but
> if that doesn't work I'll be about ready to ditch it and buy an UltraSPARC
> (which I would rather not do). Does anyone have any ideas on how to get
> this web server back into shape? (Please reply by email if possible) Thank
> you.
> Aaron Mitchell
> dorian@halcyon.com
>
Hey Aaron!
We have our Sparc 2's running 64MB RAM, and I actually want to INCREASE the
MaxClients above 150, are you sure that's the problem? Our P133 (Aphrodite)
was running 64M, and she did great for a very long time. Our SMC cards have
really worked out well, you might try those.
The Ultra would be a great solution too. They kick major ass! You have to
learn Solaris though. I'm ordering one Monday.
Peace,
Greg
greg@ccom.net
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