On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Robert Dahlem <Robert.Dahlem@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > my http server has a directory with 250+ subdirectories. There is no > index.html, so mod_autoindex does the job. A reload takes about 40 > seconds on a Xeon E3110 with 3 GHz, meanwhile one core is hit with 100% > load by a process named httpd2-prefork. > > That is way. too. slow. :-) > > The system runs openSUSE 11.0, the RPM is apache2-2.2.8-28.8. > > The relevant parts of the configuration are: > > ================================================================= > IndexOptions +FoldersFirst > Options None > <Directory /> > AuthDBMType DB > AuthDBMUserFile /www/auth/userbase_dbm > AuthzDBMType DB > AuthDBMGroupFile /www/auth/userbase_dbm > Require valid-user > </Directory> > > DocumentRoot /www/htdocs > <Directory "/www/htdocs"> > Options +FollowSymLinks > </Directory> > > <Directory "/www/htdocs/transfer"> > Options +Indexes > Require group myadmin > > # FIXME: shall prevent users to put an index.html > # into a subdirectory which will be displayed by > # members of group myadmin. > # Need to find a better way to do this. > DirectoryIndex .......... > </Directory> > ================================================================= > > I attached an strace of all the things httpd2-prefork does for each > subdirectory. > > I looks like a lot of the load comes from reading userbase_dbm over and > over (8 times for each subdirectory). If that's correct: is there a way > to get httpd to cache the contents of AuthDBMUserFile/AuthDBMGroupFile? > > Regards, > Robert > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > If a file is accessed frequently, the kernel automatically caches it. But this doesn't seem to work in your case (maybe SuSe has disabled it ?????). Another option is that, you run a script which will generate an index.html periodically as per the change frequency. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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