Kai Schaetzl schrieb:
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:52:59 +0100:
That really depends. If you only shove out static pages and have one or two or three odd cgis on the machine, you can flatten down the httpd binary quite a bit by throwing out unneeded modules.
500 to 750 clients shouldn't be that much of a problem then ...
Sure it depends ;-) I do serve dynamic pages but by removing the really unnecessary modules I made my httpds much faster (especially on pipelined image downloads) and they only have some 10 MB (RES) per worker.
But I would expect that they are running the default set of modules.
Kai
If you can separate-out the images to a specific URL (img.domain.com) and put them all in the same directory, you can use NGINX to serve them. Of course, the actual transfer-speed will not increase much - but latency will go down to the absolute minimum. And latency is what makes a page appear "fast" or "slow" to customers.
Rainer