It was thus said that the Great Joel Mandapat once stated: > Hi Joshua, > Thanks for ur reply. > > The projection of the number of users of the php application is around > 10K users. > I'm just wondering if tweaking of apache can help me achieve those > numbers of users. It's not users per se, but simultaneous number of connections. For instance, 10,000 requests (for a single resource, a single GET) per day is easily handled by just about any webserver (one request per 8 seonds). 10,000 requests per hour (a bit under 3 per second) sounds doable on a run of the mill server. By the time you get to 10,000 requests per minute (or 167 per second) *now* you're in the realm of performance tuning and a careful analysis if what you are trying to do. 10,000 requests *per second* is a whole other ballgame (at this point, you've outstripped the capacity of two T-1s and I doubt you'll even be able to use Apache at this point [1]). But note what I said: 10,000 simultaneous connections (that is, 10,000 active TCP/IP connections [2]). Now, you may have 10k users, but if only a few hundred are making requests *at any one time* then there's probably not much to worry about. -spc (But, you might want to read up on what a few other sites have done [3]) [1] Read http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html and if you don't understand it, then you're probably in over your head. [2] If you don't understand this, then you're probably in over your head. [3] Such as LiveJournal, Slashdot, kuro5hin, Google ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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