On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Sean Conner <spc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It was thus said that the Great Tom Evans once stated: >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Sean Conner <spc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > And really, how often is Apache restarted? On a graceful restart, it can >> > still serve requests. >> > >> >> It's clear you have a strong opinion on this. I prefer my mission >> critical systems not take longer than necessary to start up, whilst >> you don't seem to mind. Each to their own. > > What I dislike are statements like "it's faster to put all vhosts in your > main configuration file" without anything to back it up. Common sense? Experience? Understanding that loading 20,000 1k files off disk is magnitudes slower than loading a single 20M file off disk? > Noel Butler at > least provided some numbers (1 second for 400 files) so people have *some* > benchmark to go by. > > So I can live with 5 seconds for 2,000 files if it makes administration > easier on the rare occasions that Apache needs to be fully restarted (not > just a graceful restart). You prefer to save those five seconds, but don't > mind editing a file with 2,000 vhosts. > I definitely prefer saving 5 seconds, but I never said that I would edit a file with 20k vhosts in it, you have inferred that. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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