Hi, > I have a webserver serving a lot of requests (almost filling > up 4 Mbits/s of http at peak time everyday). It's running > Apache 1.3.27 on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, and there are usually > about 200-250 http processes running. Today I was looking at > the various *stat tools to monitor it, and noticed a high > number of network collisions ie :
Are you running your network adaptor in full-duplex mode? Perhaps the device on the other end of the wire does only support half-duplex. Changing this increased the throughput from 20kb/s to almost 1mb/s on our internal network here (10baseT/UTP). HTH, Simon
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