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84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poettering<title>Hints on Running a High-Performance Web Server</title>
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poettering<h2>Hints on Running a High-Performance Web Server</H2>
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart PoetteringRunning Apache on a heavily loaded web server, one often encounters
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poetteringproblems related to the machine and OS configuration. "Heavy" is
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poetteringrelative, of course - but if you are seeing more than a couple hits
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poetteringper second on a sustained basis you should consult the pointers on
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poetteringthis page. In general the suggestions involve how to tune your kernel
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poetteringfor the heavier TCP load, hardware/software conflicts that arise, etc.
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poettering<LI><A HREF="#AUX">A/UX (Apple's UNIX)</A>
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poettering<LI><A HREF="#BSD">BSD-based (BSDI, FreeBSD, etc)</A>
71d35b6b5563817dfbe757ab9e3b9f018b2db491Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen<LI><A HREF="#Linux">Linux</A>
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart PoetteringIf you are running Apache on A/UX, a page that gives some helpful
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart Poetteringperformance hints (concerning the <I>listen()</I> queue and using
874ff7bf4d6fe693542209f127d23cd89adc499bLennart Poettering<A HREF="http://www.jaguNET.com/apache.html">can be found here</A>
874ff7bf4d6fe693542209f127d23cd89adc499bLennart Poettering<A HREF="perf-bsd44.html#initial">Quick</A> and
874ff7bf4d6fe693542209f127d23cd89adc499bLennart Poettering<A HREF="perf-bsd44.html#detail">detailed</A>
874ff7bf4d6fe693542209f127d23cd89adc499bLennart Poetteringperformance tuning hints for BSD-derived systems.
84e51726a38e133ca42d2f30f0668d3921b210cbLennart PoetteringWe have some <A HREF="perf-dec.html">newsgroup postings</A> on how to
874ff7bf4d6fe693542209f127d23cd89adc499bLennart Poetteringtune Digital UNIX 3.2 and 4.0.
874ff7bf4d6fe693542209f127d23cd89adc499bLennart PoetteringSome documentation on tuning HP machines can be found at <A
HREF="http://www.software.hp.com/internet/perf/tuning.html">http://www.software.hp.com/internet/perf/tuning.html</A>.
href="http://www.qosina.com/~awm/apache/linux-tcp.html">Using Apache on