[users@httpd] mod_rewrite use case

2014-11-17 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
Hello, I have an Apache module based application server (A) that handles requests. Some of these requests based on a cache hit / miss need to go to another server (B) to be handled. Would this make a use case for mod_rewrite / mod_proxy where we forward the requests to another server (B) based on

Re: [users@httpd] Help needed with event MPM configuration

2014-11-04 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
configuration. Regards Raj On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Eric Covener wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Rajalakshmi Iyer > wrote: > > Could you also elaborate on the statement --- With event, keep alive > > connections don't tie up a thread between requests. Do

Re: [users@httpd] Help needed with event MPM configuration

2014-11-04 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
So we have a situation where keep=alive connections are not being used effectively by client applications (i.e. subsequent requests on keep-alive connections are not frequent enough to keep Apache workers busy all the time, resulting in low CPU utilisation). At the same time, because there are alre

Re: [users@httpd] Help needed with event MPM configuration

2014-11-04 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
Nov 4, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Rajalakshmi Iyer > wrote: > > In case of an event MPM, unlike the worker MPM, can it be expected that > an > > idle worker thread starts working on a new connection or new requests on > > another existing connection? > > > > Or is the w

Re: [users@httpd] Help needed with event MPM configuration

2014-11-04 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
closed? On 4 Nov 2014 14:27, "Eric Covener" wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Rajalakshmi Iyer > wrote: > > We might be able to increase the number of threads available to handle > new > > connections, but it seems like existing threads are doing nothing (C

Re: [users@httpd] Help needed with event MPM configuration

2014-11-04 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
Thanks Eric. We might be able to increase the number of threads available to handle new connections, but it seems like existing threads are doing nothing (CPU utilization is quite low). How can that be explained? Regards Raj On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Eric Covener wrote: > > Assuming the

[users@httpd] Help needed with event MPM configuration

2014-11-04 Thread Rajalakshmi Iyer
Hello, I need some assistance with tuning Apache with event MPM. The Apache server in consideration is running an application module. The current MPM settings are - StartServers 2 ServerLimit 4 MinSpareThreads 60 MaxSpareThreads 240 M