… do you need large number of Apache children (assuming pre-fork mode) to get decent performance ? Network IO – This is actually the… need keep alive enabled and you’d better to server images from some other server anyway (possibly even apache still, but… fat and ugly. Seriously with modern PHP applications each apache children may require 64MB of memory, sometimes even more. Part of…
Post: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
November 12, 2006 By 31 Comments
… result from cases when there are many hundreds of apache children processes are running. Most of them will be just holding… apache children. But you need to keep them busy all the time so they should not handle keep alive serve images or perform…. Even though you could misuse persistent connections and get poor performance that was not the reason. The real reason is – you…
Post: Speedup your LAMP stack with LigHTTPD
May 21, 2006 By 14 Comments
…:) Restrict resources. You can limit number of Apache children (MaxClients 50) , disable keep alive (KeepAlive Off) and…) but such approach is often bad for site performance. Even if you can balance it to work…download. If your mostly static contents are few images used in pages, setting them to be …
