On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
> I think it would be interesting if you chronicled the capacity
> improvements to your site using the mod_proxy server like this.
> I don't know how well mod_proxy does this caching from a performance
> perspective, and it might be nice to see some numbers that
> one could later compare with some of the commercial caching
> products.
In my experience, mod_proxy has good performance for cached pages. It's
not as good as Apache's static file performance (has to hash the filename,
check the expiration, etc. on each hit), but more than good enough for a
medium sized site to run on one and a cluster of them can handle tons of
traffic. The processes are very small, so you can actually load up a
Linux/Intel box with RAM and set MaxClients at a a few hundred.
- Perrin
