Re: KeepAlive -- why is it off by default?

2011-04-11 Thread Joshua Marantz
Thanks Ben -- that's pretty compelling. IMO the day when the general population moves beyond pre-fork into an event-driven model cannot come soon enough. In fact, your observation is consistent with my experience with "httpd -X" where the waterfall diagram in Firebug for a page refresh had approx

Re: KeepAlive -- why is it off by default?

2011-04-11 Thread Ben Noordhuis
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:18, Joshua Marantz wrote: > What are the reasons someone might wish to turn KeepAlive off?  The only one > I can think of is in single-process mode (httpd -X) it can be a drag to > refresh a page with lots of resources; but this seems like a secondary issue > that could

Re: KeepAlive -- why is it off by default?

2011-04-11 Thread Joe Nardone
webpagetest.org gives a big red *F *to web sites that do* *not have KeepAlive enabled. Yet, at least in the CentOS installation of Apache, it is off by default. Why is that? What are the reasons that KeepAlive should be off? The default in 2.2 is on for KeepAlive. Redhat's docs (right or wro

KeepAlive -- why is it off by default?

2011-04-11 Thread Joshua Marantz
webpagetest.org gives a big red *F *to web sites that do* *not have KeepAlive enabled. Yet, at least in the CentOS installation of Apache, it is off by default. Why is that? What are the reasons that KeepAlive should be off? Although it's trivial to turn it on in httpd.conf, many web sites do n