Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:01:16 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: 2.2.5 optimizations for web benchmarks? |
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Hi,
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:28:35 -0700 (PDT), Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> said:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> OK. Most of the important points have been covered already. Especially >> the tuning of the apache server itself is one of the most significant >> issues.
> Uh I dunno. Unless by tuning you mean "replace apache with something > that's actually fast" ;)
> Really, with the current multiprocess apache I've never really been able > to see more than a handful of percentage improvement from all the > tweaks.
Fair enough, although I know other people have definitely reported bigger differences. Is there a decent tuning writeup online that we can direct people to in the future? I'm helping Rik van Riel and a number of folk on the linux performance lists to assemble some basic tuning info and Apache is obviously one of the important components to cover.
> I did a > pthread port last year,
_Now_ we're talking interesting. :)
> IBM started up a small team to redo the threaded port, using > everything I'd learned (without looking at my code... 'cause it was > NPL tainted), and port to pthreads. Their goal: beat their own > webserver (Go). This port is called apache-apr, and as of today > someone posted saying they'd served 2.6 million hits from apache-apr > over a 4 day period.
So is this being actively developed?
Cheers, Stephen.
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