Optimal settings for a high traffic site?

I have a dual 2.8Ghz Zeon/1.5GB RAM running Redhat 7.2 with Apache 2.0.
I get over 500,000 page loads per day. The site is a combination of
static and cgi pages. I'm trying to get the optimal settings for
MaxClients and Servers in the http.conf. Here are my current settings:

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 128
MinSpareServers 64
MaxSpareServers 128
MaxClients 300
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
</IfModule>

<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 5
MaxClients 256
MinSpareThreads 100
MaxSpareThreads 200
ThreadsPerChild 100
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

<IfModule perchild.c>
NumServers 5
StartThreads 5
MinSpareThreads 5
MaxSpareThreads 10
MaxThreadsPerChild 20
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Rob wrote:

> I have a dual 2.8Ghz Zeon

Do you mean Xeon?

> /1.5GB RAM running Redhat 7.2

Yikes! That's old and unsupported. I hope you've been tracking security
updates for all the packages you use on it.

> with Apache 2.0. I get over 500,000 page loads per day. The site is a
> combination of static and cgi pages.

You should find you get a hefty performance boost if you port your CGI
scripts to mod_perl (or whatever is appropriate for the language you write
your CGI in). That will probably bring more benefit then twiddling around
with the number of Clients and Servers Apache deals with at once.


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