… (ListenBacklog 1024) but such approach is often bad for site performance. Even if you can balance it to work right in… like you expect it to work. Use other server, ie lighttpd with FastCGI. Honestly I like this solution more – it allows… by reverse proxy servers could be enough. The note about LigHTTPD – I like this one in particular because it is really…
Post: Content delivery system design mistakes
February 11, 2007 By 9 Comments
… static content especially with many thousands of keep-alive connections. Lighttpd is often named as faster alternative. It is surely true… serving many millions of thumbnails it may not work well. Lighttpd 1.4 is single threaded and that single threads is… files (which does not fit in memory) you can have performance to go down as request will be frequently made to…
Comment: Progress with ClickAider project
October 29, 2007 By 21 Comments
… show any benchmarks which would show significantly better performance for nginx compared to lighttpd ? I’ve seen nginx being say 10% faster…. The choice for lighttpd in this case was made because there is good documentation for developing modules, together with good enough performance.
Comment: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 18, 2008 By 28 Comments
Saiyine Lighttpd can compress static files and and compressed result (to not perform compression each time) just enable compression module and use next lines #### compress module #compress.cache-dir = “/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/” #compress.filetype = (“text/plain”, “text/html”)
Comment: Why do you need many apache children ?
February 6, 2007 By 15 Comments
… simply putting something in front is great idea. I use lighttpd in many cases – it works well and extremely easy to… proxy. There are some things I do not like in lighttpd running in such mode. The main problem it buffers data… for talking to the server which means a bit lower performance and it also means you can run out of local…
Post: Progress with ClickAider project
October 24, 2007 By 21 Comments
…. We get some 600 tracking events per second on our lighttpd tracking servers which currently works well and there is still… queries. At this point however we’re looking how much performance we can get from real time aggregation because we want… directions for US audience compared to general audience or track performance for referrals from given domain name to see if partnership…
Comment: How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL
January 11, 2011 By 16 Comments
… want me to solve a performance problem: “I do NOT look for possible solutions of a performance problem. Solutions come to me…, the load balancer, the switch, the network, the connection pool, lighttpd configuration”. Regards, Willem
Post: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
November 12, 2006 By 32 Comments
… serve images or perform spoon feeding. You can place squid in front, use apache proxy module or even use lighttpd with FastCGI…. Even though you could misuse persistent connections and get poor performance that was not the reason. The real reason is – you…
Comment: Lighttpd as reverse proxy
June 18, 2008 By 28 Comments
…. Threaded MPM Apache has decent memory consumption and almost same performance as lighttpd with sendfile network module.
Comment: Progress with ClickAider project
October 29, 2007 By 21 Comments
I know it is not a bottleneck now, but suggest to look at nginx instead of lighttpd as well. Much better performance.
