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Thanks for reading this. We got an issue with our web server, we have a rather large website, with 500-800 concurrent users at any time, we use a dedicated server to host it, we use prefork to increase the speed of the Apache, but recently we experience a problem where our website takes longer then usual to load, tested it out in pingdom tools shows that the "wait" time it the main factor.

Also attached a screen shot of the "top" command.

Any help and tips will be highly appreciated.

Top command: http://postimg.org/image/o2g777lwp/

Pingdom screenshot: http://postimg.org/image/b9s37aaax/

httpd.conf relevant settings:

<IfModule worker.c>
ThreadLimit         64
ServerLimit         16
StartServers        4
MinSpareThreads     64
MaxSpareThreads     128
ThreadsPerChild     64
MaxClients          1024
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

*We have a complex perl script running.

System spec: 16Gb ram , 4 core cpu

ThreadLimit 64 ServerLimit 16 StartServers 4 MinSpareThreads 64 MaxSpareThreads 128 ThreadsPerChild 64 MaxClients 1024 MaxRequestsPerChild 0

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  • What content are you typically serving? Did you consider moving your static content to a CDN? What sort of server side language are you using? Did you take a look at the Apache status page? – Janos Pasztor May 17 '13 at 10:32
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    Could be interresting to check for database long queries also – Alexandre Lavoie May 17 '13 at 10:37
  • Bugger me, Load average of 158. Your server is seriously overcommitted. – Tom O'Connor May 17 '13 at 11:03
  • Can you post the worker config from apache2.conf, and /proc/cpuinfo for the record? – Tom O'Connor May 17 '13 at 11:03
  • @TomO'Connor - I've supplied this info, would appreciate if you could let me know what you think. What's the right way to calculate the settings of the worker in apache ? Thanks in advnace! – Alex May 20 '13 at 11:20

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