Re: [cobalt-users] Limit number of connections per site

[Jay Tingley <jayt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ John Parris writes... ]

> Anyone know if there is a way in apache to limit the number of simultaneous
> connections a virtual host can have?
 
> We have some sites getting bombarded with connections and it's making the
> whole box suffer. We have a RAQ2 with 256MB of RAM, it's serving nowhere
> near 10 million hits per day like Cobalt claims it will do, and it's
> crawling while serving pages and in telnet and such. There's not really
> anything else running except apache, sendmail, and the normal stuff.

It's 10 million hits per day, or 250,000 emails, or 50,000 file
transfers. So if you're doing email and FTP, I think the number
of hits drops substantially. Also note that a "hit" is not the
same as a visit...
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Jay Tingley
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