Re: Preventing an apache mpm prefork from disk trashing

On 05/12/2011 12:45 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a wordpress blog running with apache in prefork mode ( all debian
> packages ) I have noticed that by traffic peaks ( think reddit ), Apache
> starts to swap heavily becauses it creates too much processes according
> to the RAM of the machine.
>
> I have been thinking of reducing MaxClients so that MaxClient * ResRAM
> apache process<  RAM of the server.
>
> Is that the correct way to treat this problem ?
>
> I know there nginx + fastcgi but I am not there yet :)
>
> Emmanuel
>
>
>    
I suggest apache with fcgid (mpm-worker mode) and memcache module (not 
memcached). Also php with APC cache extension.
Your server performance will increase min. %20.

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