How much RAM does the machine have? How many hard drives, what type and sizes are they? Do you use RAID? Keith In theory, theory and practice are the same; In practice they are not. On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: "devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [users@httpd] high load average on Apache 1.3 hosting 8000 conc. > users forum > > Dear List members, > I'm the administrator of a big website that hosts an important forum > (VBulletin to be precise). At peak time we get around 7000-9000 > concurrent users (counting the php sessions, members visiting the forum) > the switch (Foundry) counts 2700 concurrent connections. > > during those peak times, the apache server (RHEL 4 AS, Apache 1.3, php) > gets a load average of 80~170. the mysql server runs smoothly at 0.9 ~ > 3. > > Browsing the Internet / following some optimizations HOWTOs didn't help. > Can anyone kindly support me on that issue? > > Sincerely, > -- > devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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