[ale] Apache Performance..

[Russell Enderby]

In the past I have looked at software like webstats to see where web
usage ends up.  Recently I have been putting the server into overdrive
and was wondering if there is a utility that will show how busy the web
server is.  Something that would relate hits per second to max hits per
second given the maxservers and maxclients.

Currently I am using maxserver, and minserver as a gauge to how busy it
is.  I believe the default for 1.3.x is 20 and 8 respectively.  I
noticed the box was running 20 servers so I figured it may be reaching
capacity.  I increased the servers to 40 and moved MaxClients from 150
to 256.

I checked out the Apache Performance documentation and it talks about
setting those values to 'a good comfortable value, not too high not too
low'.  This seems quite vague.  Does anyone know how many child
processes a server can spawn and how that relates to the MaxServers and
MaxClients?

Thanks much,
Russell

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Russell T. Enderby                                        Arris
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