Re: Preventing an apache mpm prefork from disk trashing

[Atıf CEYLAN <mehmet@atifceylan.com>]

On 05/12/2011 12:45 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:

Hello

I have a wordpress blog running with apache in prefork mode ( all debian
packages ) I have noticed that by traffic peaks ( think reddit ), Apache
starts to swap heavily becauses it creates too much processes according
to the RAM of the machine.

I have been thinking of reducing MaxClients so that MaxClient * ResRAM
apache process < RAM of the server.

Is that the correct way to treat this problem ?

I know there nginx + fastcgi but I am not there yet :)

Emmanuel


  

I suggest apache with fcgid (mpm-worker mode) and memcache module (not memcached). Also php with APC cache extension.
Your server performance will increase min. %20.

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