Re: Apache::ASP with Worker MPM

On 2006-12-05 06:47, Fagyal Csongor wrote:
> What I have been running lately is an Apache2.2 with the worker MPM as 
> a  proxy, and a good-old Apache1.3 with mod_perl+Apache::ASP as the 
> "real" server. The mod_perl server serves the dynamic ASP pages, while 
> the front servert the static content. This is a very typical 
> configuration IMHO.
>
> I could once (something like two years ago?) make Apache::ASP run with 
> Apache 2.0, but that was a long time ago... since then, I stick to the 
> above config - which I recommend to you if you do not want to waste 
> too much time on figuring out all the stuff about Apache2.x and 
> mod_perl (even though it shouldn't be too hard).
> For the record: we do somewhere around 6M-8M pageviews per month (see 
> http://www.kepeslap.com at http://www.apache-asp.org/sites.html), 
> which peeks to approx. 500-700k pageviews per day in busy periods. 
> This is a 1.8Ghz Core2 with 3G RAM, in a shared environment (with two 
> other rather busy sites running on the same server). CPU utilization 
> reaches 50% of all available CPU time, tops (I guess half of that is 
> coming from the ASP site).

Thanks ... it sounds like your config works well for you.  However, 
since 95% of our page views are dynamic, I'm not sure it would gain 
much.  The only thing I can think of there is serving all the images off 
Apache 1.3.

Our CPU load isn't too bad (dual Opteron 242 currently) since the 
database is on a separate server, but there are still times that the 
number of httpd processes are maxed out and the browser has to wait for 
a connection.  So the new hardware will be dual Opteron 270s (dual core) 
so I have no worries about CPU load -- I'd just rather run 4-6GB rather 
than 8-10GB of RAM.

But maybe the images on a separate server process are the answer ... 
there are close to 10x as many requests for images as for pages.  Mostly 
small GIFs but also a lot of larger JPEGs.  Need to give this idea some 
thought as an alternative.  Thanks!

Tom