On 5/9/07, Daniel Ouellet  wrote:

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> I can now have two clients using 1000 parallel connections to one i386

> 850MHz server, my old one that I was testing with and I get all that no

> problem now. No delay and I can even push it more, but I figure at 2000

> parallel connections I should be able to get some breathing time now.

I've spent considerable time with tuning apache on openbsd to

consume all available resources in OpenBSD. Here's the

relevant httpd.conf sections:
Timeout 300

KeepAlive On

MaxKeepAliveRequests 5000

KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 20

MaxSpareServers 30

StartServers 50

MaxClients 5000

MaxRequestsPerChild 0
I had staticlly compiled php into my httpd binary and obviously

raised HARD_LIMIT to 5000, using OpenBSD's apache.
This netted me an ability to serve about a max of 3000

requests per second on a 1.6ghz athlon with 256MB of memory.
hth.