>> I lowered my MaxClients setting in apache a long time ago after >> running out of memory a couple times. I recently optimized my >> website's code and sped the site way up, and now I find myself >> periodically up against MaxClients. Is a RAM upgrade the only >> practical way to solve this sort of problem? > > Use a reverse proxy in caching mode. > > A request served up by the proxy server is a request not served up by > Apache. > > Squid, nginx and varnish are all decent for the purpose, though squid > and nginx are probably the more polished than varnish.
Thanks Michael, I think I will set up nginx to serve my images. That should take a big load off apache. Is nginx still beneficial when using the Worker MPM? Should I be OK with NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="" in /etc/make.conf if I'm only serving images? - Grant
