I'll take a look at updating the sample-config.tcl to be more relevant (and cleaner). If anyone has any suggestions, please send my way.
Andrew Piskorski wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:59:27PM -0400, Kevin Murphy wrote: > > > Not that I know of. I'm not an aolserver expert. All I know is > > that in this case I just compiled and installed aolserver-4 with > > defaults and used the default nsd.tcl file. > > Well, this certainly isn't your main problem, but if you're trying to > get good scalability and performance out of AOLserver you probably > shouldn't be using the default "sample-config.tcl", as it has silly > thread settings. > > This is fresh in my mind because I made the same mistake with > AOLserver and OpenACS recently: > <http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=105902> > > Hm, the thread settings in sample-config.tcl have the old 3.x > defaults, but they're commented out. Let's see, in the current > AOLserver 4.x C code, nope, no one has changed the defaults. Looks > sample-config.tcl and the defaults in nsd/server.c are still match. > So you should definitely change that. > > These are the defaults: > > ns_param maxthreads 20 > ns_param minthreads 0 > ns_param threadtimeout 120 > > But something like this is probably more reasonable for what you're > trying to do: > > ns_param maxthreads 20 > ns_param minthreads 20 > ns_param threadtimeout 3600 > > If you're hitting your AOLserver constantly with Apache Bench and > never letting any threads sit idle for 120 seconds, then you're > probably only taking the hit of spawning new threads once, rather than > the (bad) hit of spawning and killing them over and over. But even so > it'll probably remove some variabiltiy in your results to change your > thread settigs to something like the above. > > -- > Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.piskorski.com > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the > Subject: field of your email blank. > -- Nathan Folkman Technical Mgr., AOLserver/NPE/NES Web Services and Publishing -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
