Optimizing Apache for performance on FreeBSd !!
 

Hello,
My clients are complaing for slow servers .There is no network speed problem or mysql problem as I already optimizade mysql ..
But still server is running slow..
Here are some of my parameters:

Check this:

server# ps -aux | grep -c http
231
server# ps -aux | grep -c mysql
2
server# top d 1
last pid: 61284; load averages: 0.41, 0.45, 0.39 up 50+16:19:21 08:03:55
309 processes: 1 running, 308 sleeping
CPU states: 18.8% user, 0.0% nice, 11.5% system, 1.0% interrupt, 68.8% idle
Mem: 319M Active, 165M Inact, 451M Wired, 35M Cache, 111M Buf, 16M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 12M Used, 2036M Free

And in httpd.conf file I have:
Keepalive on
MaxKeepAliveRequest 500
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 230
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

How should I tune this?
Thank you

Try to adjust the MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers to appropriate values that minimizing the process forking and existing. You'll need to watch the number of similtaneous request to get these values. Have you investigated why Apache is slow? It could be something like slow hostname looks or disk reads for static content.