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On 03/07/2013 03:45 PM, Grant wrote: |
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>>> I lowered my MaxClients setting in apache a long time ago after |
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>>> running out of memory a couple times. I recently optimized my |
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>>> website's code and sped the site way up, and now I find myself |
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>>> periodically up against MaxClients. Is a RAM upgrade the only |
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>>> practical way to solve this sort of problem? |
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>> Use a reverse proxy in caching mode. |
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>> A request served up by the proxy server is a request not served up by |
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>> Apache. |
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>> Squid, nginx and varnish are all decent for the purpose, though squid |
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>> and nginx are probably the more polished than varnish. |
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> Thanks Michael, I think I will set up nginx to serve my images. That |
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> should take a big load off apache. Is nginx still beneficial when |
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> using the Worker MPM? |
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It...depends? |
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nginx in reverse caching proxy mode will simply serve up objects before |
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the httpd it's protecting has to deal with them. Whether the type of an |
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MPM makes a significant difference on nginx's value depends more on what |
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kind of work you are (or aren't) asking Apache to do. I really couldn't |
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answer that for you without knowing the details behind what you're |
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running on top of Apache. |
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> Should I be OK with NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="" in /etc/make.conf if I'm |
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> only serving images? |
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No idea. I've not used nginx, but it's highly recommended and widely |
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used for the purpose. You'll have to dig into the docs yourself. :-| |
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