Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 massive hits - trouble!

[Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Another question has popped up. Our Sysadmin at our ISP said he 
>tweaked Apache to run better under heavy loads. Were can I read up 
>on 
>this more in detail. I have O'Rielly's Apache the definitive guide 
>and have read a lot about apache. I have not found too much, or I 
>missed something, about how to tweak the Apache server in different 
>situations.

You might want to look at the following directives (note that there 
might be others that have some effect on performance and heavy loads) 
:
KeepAlive 		(to allow persistent connections)
MaxKeepAliveRequests 	(max number of request per connec)
MinSpareServers 			(min number of process in case of low load)
MaxSpareServers 			(number of process apache will try to keep max)
StartServers 					(number of process at start)
MaxClients 					(max number of simultaneous connections)
MaxRequestsPerChild		(the higher, the less process creations)


Hope that helps,

Fabrice Prémel.