----- "Graham Leggett" <[email protected]> wrote: > Rich Bowen wrote: > > > The performance tuning documentation that we currently include in > the > > docs is simply awful. What with the comments about Apache 1.2 and > the > > suggestions of how to deal with the new Linux 2.0 kernel, I think > it's > > beyond fixing. It needs to be tossed and rewritten - although > perhaps > > there are parts that are salvageable. > > > > I was wondering if someone has a performance doc that they could > > contribute as a starting place? Perhaps Sander's talk from AC? Or > if > > someone would be willing to give some attention to the docs list for > a > > while to assist in writing something that would be useful to actual > > admins in the real world. > > Something else related that I think we should address are our default > config files and performance. > > Up till now, the build has assumed that if a module was built, then a > LoadModule line should appear in the default config file for that > module. Because distros typically compile most (if not all) of the > modules, most (if not all) of the modules end up being loaded into > the > server by default, in turn meaning lots of hook calling and > per-request > config parsing is being done for no reason.
It's been a long time now, but I still remember Rich asking for a Apache httpd starting *without* a config. I'm not sure this is easily doable, but I'm pretty confident that we can slim down the basic config (httpd.conf) to a very minimalistic level and put all the fluff in extra Matthew's configs are pretty good example of how to do it right: http://www.linux-corner.info/httpd/httpd.conf http://www.linux-corner.info/httpd/httpd-simple.conf They are short and quite clear on what they, > [snip] So long -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 699 122 96 338 Fax: +43 (0) 1 90 89 226 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
