Omero
Wed 6th Feb '02, 1:50pm
Well... my setup is as follows:
2 dual p3-1000 servers with 1.5 gigs of ram each, and 3x75 gb ATA100 hd in RAID5 with a promise controller, running under FreeBSD 4.4
One is a dedicated webserver, the other a dedicated mysql db server (yes I know for mysql Linux is better, but it runs just fine also on FreeBSD presently, so np).
My problem is my webserver. With 200 ppl online, the load is VERY high because of big signs, avatars and the like... my forum is really colorfull and full of images, which apache has to load and send to users.
This is what I'm seeing now for example:
104.24, 78.23, 41.39 250 users online (220 members & 30 guests).
As you can see 104 is NOT a suggested load ;)
Yet the forum runs well till 150 online, then start slowing down because of too many https processes till reaching 100 of load!
Now I ask... what solution can i take?
A) Tweaking apache options would do any good? Could you suggest me how?
B) Adding a proxy would do any good?
C) Adding a "php only" separate webserver would do any good?
D) Adding a "images" webserver would do any good?
I want to know what do you think are the best solutions to fix this problem... which is causing my users to go away and wait for weird hours to post when just 150-200 online ;)
You can check out my forum at http://forum.ngx.sm/ ;)
2 dual p3-1000 servers with 1.5 gigs of ram each, and 3x75 gb ATA100 hd in RAID5 with a promise controller, running under FreeBSD 4.4
One is a dedicated webserver, the other a dedicated mysql db server (yes I know for mysql Linux is better, but it runs just fine also on FreeBSD presently, so np).
My problem is my webserver. With 200 ppl online, the load is VERY high because of big signs, avatars and the like... my forum is really colorfull and full of images, which apache has to load and send to users.
This is what I'm seeing now for example:
104.24, 78.23, 41.39 250 users online (220 members & 30 guests).
As you can see 104 is NOT a suggested load ;)
Yet the forum runs well till 150 online, then start slowing down because of too many https processes till reaching 100 of load!
Now I ask... what solution can i take?
A) Tweaking apache options would do any good? Could you suggest me how?
B) Adding a proxy would do any good?
C) Adding a "php only" separate webserver would do any good?
D) Adding a "images" webserver would do any good?
I want to know what do you think are the best solutions to fix this problem... which is causing my users to go away and wait for weird hours to post when just 150-200 online ;)
You can check out my forum at http://forum.ngx.sm/ ;)