Doesn't the proxy do a write-to-disk as the page passes through? Particularly with proxy-pass and proxy-passreverse? This would imply that there is a process load on the server (limiting the number of simultanious connections - but not an httpd/proxy limit per-sae) *as well as* a disk-limit (for the I/O) Having said that, we have a proxy server that farms dynamic web pages *and* proxies for a couple of dozen remote servers (defined within multiple vhost sections <grin /> ) Boyle Owen wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>I am new to using Apache as a proxy. Could someone give me a >>rough idea of how many web servers Apache 2 can proxy? > > > As many as there are on the internet. > > Apache simply takes incoming requests from the client and re-issues them to whatever proxy is defined in the config rules for the given request... > > Reading between the lines, I suspect you are harbouring a misconception about how HTTP operates. It is not a connection-based protocol - it is connectionless and stateless. So your question is not like "how many phone calls can a switchboard handle?", it is more like "how many addresses can the post office deliver to?" > > > >>I know this is like asking >>'How long is a piece of string?', but I need a rough starting point. >>Does anyone know of any stats from testing (mind craft, etc)? -- Ian Stuart. Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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