Re: [OT] (apache question) Working around MaxClients?

[Perrin Harkins <pe...@primenet.com>]

> I have a high traffic website (looks like 200 GB output per month,
> something around 100000-200000 hits per day) hosted on a commercial
> service. The service does not limit my bandwidth usage, but they limit the
> number of concurrent Apache process that I can have to 41. This causes the
> server to delay accepting new connections during peak times.

That seems pretty arbitrary.  They use that instead of some kind of memory
or CPU cap?

> My account is a "virtual server"; what this means is that I have access to
> the Apache httpd.conf files and can restart the Apache daemon, but do not
> have the priviledge to bind a program to port 80 (so I can't put thttpd on
> port 80).

That rules out some obvious solutions like lingerd and squid (which I think
uses a select loop).  Sounds like they've made it so there's nothing you can
do except try to server your content faster.  You could look at
Apache::Compress.

- Perrin

RE: [OT] (apache question) Working around MaxClients?

[Stathy Touloumis <st...@edventions.com>]

You could defined a different port in your <img> tags.  Then you can start
thttpd to bind to that port.  You shouldn't have a problem binding to ports
higher that 1024(?) I think.  Unless they have done something to prevent
this which is doubtful.

Example:
<img src="http://www.foo.com:6666/test/test.gif">

Unfortunately it could mean changing lots of code on your site.  Of course,
you could use something like Apache::filter to alter your image tags on the
way out.  I don't think this would be a difficult issue though.  The main
thing is if you can bind to ports over 1024.

> > I have a high traffic website (looks like 200 GB output per month,
> > something around 100000-200000 hits per day) hosted on a commercial
> > service. The service does not limit my bandwidth usage, but
> they limit the
> > number of concurrent Apache process that I can have to 41. This
> causes the
> > server to delay accepting new connections during peak times.
> > My account is a "virtual server"; what this means is that I
> have access to
> > the Apache httpd.conf files and can restart the Apache daemon,
> but do not
> > have the priviledge to bind a program to port 80 (so I can't
> put thttpd on
> > port 80).

Stathy Touloumis
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