On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Pratte, Gil <gil.pra...@pearson.com> wrote: > I have read conflicting reports regarding the KeepAlive setting. Under load > the website has hundreds to thousands of users logged in at any given time. > I am in the process of tuning it for performance under load. > > My question is: Should I set KeepAlive to On or Off for a website under > heavy load?
Throw in another knob... KeepAlive On with a small value for KeepAliveTimeout can reduce thread usage significantly but preserve much of the benefit. Consider KeepAlive On + KeepAliveTimeout 1... That won't hold the connection open across end-user interaction, but it will hold it open to satisfy some expected sequences of requests (e.g., to pull down images/stylesheets/etc. referenced from a new page). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
