[ATrpms-users] ATRPMS down?

[David Rees]

On 5/6/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > Have you lowered the number of concurrent connections allowed by
> > Apache? Have you thought about putting squid in front of apache as a
> > reverse proxy? Squid works much better at handling high numbers of
> > concurrent connections than Apache does as it doesn't require a
> > dedicated thread or process for each connection.
>
> Hm, that's an idea. squid might also handle the byte range
> "accelerator" accesses, e.g. it may translate them to one fetch and
> then deliver in pieces ... (?)

I'm not sure how squid will handle that case, but regardless it should
really improve performance of your server. Takes some
reading/configuring to get it working, you'll probably want to get
squid running on a different port at first before making it the
primary on port 80.

-Dave