Date:  Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:13:12 -0400
From:  "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:06248] Performance Tuning Apache and PHP on BQ
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <005501c6ba55$872fc880$6400a8c0@COMPUTER8SD7ER2>
X-Mail-Count: 06248

I have started running an active site on a BQ machine and the hardware is a
PIII-500Mhz Dual Processor with 512Mb RAM.

 

It has been running the standard BQ install of Apache and PHP as configured
out of the box with respect to httpd.conf and php.ini.  It has the max
memory size of a PHP script set to 8M, with timeouts of 30 seconds, and
MaxClients was initially set at 125.

 

Once I noticed in the error_log a notice that I should increase the size of
MaxClients, due to reaching its limit.  I arbitrarily moved MaxClients to
250, but in reading about performance tuning Apache on the web, realized
that it should be a more researched decision than just arbitrarily changing
the setting.

 

Can anyone give me any pointers on performance tuning Apache and PHP for my
configuration?  I want to achieve maximum performance without creating a
situation where processes reach their limits and the machine starts swapping
to disk, which only creates more performance issues by looping memory
constraints.

 

Thoughts?


	
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