Chris's Wiki :: blog/links/ScalingApache

Link: Scaling Apache at ftp.heanet.ie

April 22, 2006

ftp.heanet.ie serves a huge volume of mostly static file downloads with Apache on a single machine. This results in interesting Apache tuning issues, among other things.

Scaling Apache 2.x beyond 20,000 concurrent downloads [PDF]; just the title alone gives you the flavour.
Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown (Niagara is the new Sun server box and chipset.)
Niagara Benchmarks: Update

If this sort of thing is your cup of tea, much of Colm MacCárthaigh's blog may be interesting.

(From Tim Bray.)

Comments on this page:

From 70.53.120.146 at 2006-04-22 11:53:56:

Thanks for the links, very interesting. I'm trying to get a T1000 (6-core, 8GB-RAM) for testing.

Oscar@MIE

By cks at 2006-04-25 02:00:01:

The Niagara boxes look very nice and I sort of wish we had a reason to look at them, but the problem for us is that they're too powerful (and thus too expensive). There just don't seem to be that many Niagara-sized problems running around these days, at least around here.

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