Re: image/static server

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@pobox.com>]

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On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> > I was thinking about some of the performance issues while working on
> > ht://dig.  One of the things we had talked about, but never did, was
> > create a seperate apache server without PHP and mod_perl for serving
> > images and other "statics".
> [snip] 
> > or something like that.  Kinda ugly though. :-(
> 
> If it's ugly, and you don't need it, don't do it. Stop wasting time
> with stuff that's not relevant, if you want to be up in a month.

I agree with if we don't need it don't bother.  I only wish I knew if we
needed it or not.  Currently each httpd process is 4-4.5 MB in size.
Currently Apache and MySQL are eating 1/2 our RAM (122MB) and we don't
have any users yet.  Htdig's search program is 1.7MB/each.
 
> You'll have plenty of time to put up a second apache server, if you find
> that you you need it.

Hope so.


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