[Erwin]

Originally Posted by kmike

Hmm, keep alive should help multiplexing web servers like lighttpd. Number of open files should not be an issue if you're not on the shared hosting, and there're no other downsides to enabling keep-alive.

I thought keep alive is only useful for static files? I may be wrong obviously, I'm no expert. No. of files may be significant if there are lot of attachments, again from what I've read, so it's probably more relevant for an attachment server. Enabling keep-alive just means connections are kept longer - I have to say that when I was using apache, I never had keep alive on, even with my image server.