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Minimum Spare Servers 8 Maximum Spare Servers 32 Max Clients 1500 Max Requests Per Child 0 Start Servers 8 Server Limit 2000 Keep-Alive Timeout 15 Max Keep-Alive Requests 256
Other options:
–addition of memcache
–recompiling Apache to run as PreFork opposed to MPM Worker Event
Check for Prefork or Worker
# [root@austin ~]# /usr/sbin/httpd -V | grep MPM # Server MPM: Prefork # -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
Links:
http://kb.sp.parallels.com/en/113007
http://codebucket.co.in/apache-prefork-or-worker/
–Reduced some of the limits in the apache config. Many things that should be in the hundreds were set in the thousands.
–KeepAlive on was simply adding too large of a load to the server.
Timeout Timeout 300
Usually this value doesn’t require editing and a default of 300 is sufficient. Lowering the ‘Timeout’ value will cause a long running script to terminate earlier than expected.
On virtualized servers like VPS servers, lowering this value to 100 can help improve performance.
KeepAlive KeepAlive On
This setting should be “On” unless the server is getting requests from hundreds of IPs at once.
High volume and/or load balanced servers should have this setting disabled (Off) to increase connection throughput.
MaxKeepAliveRequests MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
This setting limits the number of requests allowed per persistent connection when KeepAlive is on. If it is set to 0, unlimited requests will be allowed.
It is recommended to keep this value at 100 for virtualized accounts like VPS accounts. On dedicated servers it is recommended that this value be modified to 150.
KeepAliveTimeout KeepAliveTimeout 15
The number of seconds Apache will wait for another request before closing the connection. Setting this to a high value may cause performance problems in heavily loaded servers. The higher the timeout, the more server processes will be kept occupied waiting on connections with idle clients.
It is recommended that this value be lowered to 5 on all servers.
MinSpareServers MinSpareServers 5
This directive sets the desired minimum number of idle child server processes. An idle process is one which is not handling a request. If there are fewer spareservers idle then specified by this value, then the parent process creates new children at a maximum rate of 1 per second. Setting this parameter to a large number is almost always a bad idea.
Others Suggestions:
Virtualized server, ie VPS 5 Dedicated server with 1-2GB RAM 10 Dedicated server with 2-4GB RAM 20 Dedicated server with 4+ GB RAM 25 MaxSpareServers MaxSpareServers 10
The MaxSpareServers directive sets the desired maximum number of idle child server processes. An idle process is one which is not handling a request. If there are more than MaxSpareServers idle, then the parent process will kill off the excess processes.
The MaxSpareServers value should be set as double the value that is set in MinSpareServers.
StartServers StartServers 5
This directivesets the number of child server processes created on startup. This value should mirror what is set in MinSpareServers.
MaxClients MaxClients 150
This directive sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that will be served. Any connection attempts over the specified limit will be queued. Once a process is freed at the end of a different request, the queued connection will then be served.
For virtualized servers such as VPS accounts, it is recommended to keep this value at 150. For all dedicated servers the recommended value for this setting is 250.
MaxRequestsPerChild MaxRequestsPerChild 0
This directive sets the limit on the number of requests that an individual child server process will handle. After the number of requests reaches the value specified, the child process will die. When this value is set at 0, then the process will never expire.
Other adjustments:
Virtualized server, ie VPS 300 Dedicated server with 1-4GB RAM 500 Dedicated server with 4+GB RAM 1000
Other resources:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/perf-tuning.html
https://www.howtoforge.com/configuring_apache_for_maximum_performance
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8902103/is-there-an-apache-tuner-script-like-mysqltuner-pl