fv_2007
Agile innovative developer with deep insight into all shapes of lightweight technologies such as ROA, REST and Ruby. Absolute “early adopter” in Web 2.0 technologies, platforms and Framework. Large professional network and fervent speeches at the conference level on architecture, strategy, design patterns, restful services, object-oriented thinking and modeling languages. Special interest in language constructs based on a deep knowledge of programming languages such as Smalltalk, Erlang, Java, Clojure, Scala, Ruby ... read more
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Apache RAM January 27, 2007 09:40 about 1 year ago

The single biggest hardware issue affecting web server performance is RAM. A webserver should never ever have to swap memory! Swapping increases the latency of each request beyond a point that users consider “fast enough”. This causes users to hit stop and reload, further increasing the load. You can, and should, control the MaxClients setting so that yo... read more