[CentOS] Apache Server Tuning for Performance

Wed Jan 21 17:40:39 UTC 2009
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>

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