On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:42:59AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> On 5/6/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > Have you lowered the number of concurrent connections allowed by
> > > Apache? Have you thought about putting squid in front of apache as a
> > > reverse proxy? Squid works much better at handling high numbers of
> > > concurrent connections than Apache does as it doesn't require a
> > > dedicated thread or process for each connection.
> >
> > Hm, that's an idea. squid might also handle the byte range
> > "accelerator" accesses, e.g. it may translate them to one fetch and
> > then deliver in pieces ... (?)
>
> I'm not sure how squid will handle that case, but regardless it should
> really improve performance of your server. Takes some
> reading/configuring to get it working, you'll probably want to get
> squid running on a different port at first before making it the
> primary on port 80.
Yes, I will be experimenting first. I had squid running in transparent
proxy mode before, the only thing I'm a bit worried are files going
through two processes, e.g. eating twice as much memory.
BTW I found tha yum is supposed to only open up one connection. Maybe
some users have keepalive=0 in their yum.conf.
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url :
http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/attachments/20060507/a8c7bcb6/attachment.bin