On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:23:49AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> "Tim Pushor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What would the ramifications be of disabling keep alives altogether?
> That's essentially what the config file below does.
>
> In general, it leads to lousy performance. Keepalives were
> a very important HTTP performance improvement.
>
That's not quite the full story - at least not for Apache, because a
keepalive request will tie up one httpd child until the connection
has been closed. Setting keepalive time to something "too big" will
probably be even worse for performance. It usually ends up as
something that needs tuning depending on your setup - I've got one
fairly well used "extranet" site with loads of NS browsers that
work quite well with keepalives on, but I've also had to turn it
off on other sites either for performance or because som IE's didn't
like it.
vh
Mads Toftum
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