On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:39, devnull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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? Looking at a longer-term solution, you should migrate the application to Apache 2.2, where the DBD architecture offers a major improvement in an application of that kind. I don't know whether PHP has made any effort to support DBD yet. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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