[BlueOnyx:15242] Re: Server Load

[Richard Sidlin]

> 
> On 4/22/2014 9:58 AM, Richard Sidlin wrote:
> > Bit of advice please. We have a 5108R on 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
> > L5320 @ 1.86GHz and 10GB of RAM. We run one site on it that the client
> > believes is going to become very busy. They are sending a mailshot
> > (not through us) to 7500 potential clients followed by the same every 2
> weeks.
> >
> > Is there a limit to the amount of connections the server can handle
> > before it refuses to accept more? The client is a bit concerned that
> > the server is up to it and won't crash once it is hit with a lot of
> > people browsing to it.


> 
> That honestly doesn't sound like a lot of work to me.   We have
> customers on equipment with far lower spec than that run a fairly
consistent
> 10Mbps+ of traffic.
> 
> Perhaps you'll want to increase your Apache's MaxClients, but... maybe I'm
> misunderstanding here but this doesn't sound like much to be concerned
> with.
> 
> --
> Chris Gebhardt
> 
Thanks Chris. Worrying for nothing I guess. The MaxClients in the httpd.conf
file is set for 256. What should be a good figure to go to on this?

Thanks.