From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 11:32:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D223237B443 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7SIWYW14409; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:32:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "James E. Pace" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaling Apache? Message-ID: <20000828113233.X1209@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from jepace@pobox.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:23:01AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * James E. Pace [000828 11:23] wrote: > > I've got a 2 way Pentium III / 550MHz system with 1GB of memory running > 4.1-STABLE. > > For a project I'm working on, I need to have a webserver handle thousands > (and 10's of thousands) of simultaneous connections. To do this, it > seems the best way is to have lots and LOTS of apache's httpds running > at all times. [snip] apache is entirely useless for high amounts of traffic, you should be investigating another webserver or looking at a clustering/load-balancing solution. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message