Keep alive on or off

[the one]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to make my website better and i noticed in my apache global file that the option keep alive was turned off.

Would you suggest i turn this on or not.I am with interserver and they are really good

Many thanks

[RichieBoy67]

I would turn it on and see if you see improvements. You will have to enable it in your includes/config file as well.

[the one]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I would turn it on and see if you see improvements. You will have to enable it in your includes/config file as well.

Many thanks

Its turned off for now but i did turn it on before and ran a test on that website and all the red x turned to green so all looked ok.

I could not see an option for this though in my config.php file though

Many thanks

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by the one

Many thanks

Its turned off for now but i did turn it on before and ran a test on that website and all the red x turned to green so all looked ok.

I could not see an option for this though in my config.php file though

Many thanks

Yeah, my bad.. do not think that is in there any more.

[AusPhotography]

Depends on memory and other Apache config.
If you have the resources turn it on.

You need to balance Server Limit / Max Request Workers
and Keep-Alive

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by AusPhotography

Depends on memory and other Apache config.
If you have the resources turn it on.

You need to balance Server Limit / Max Request Workers
and Keep-Alive

I figured if he turned it on and saw improvements that would be a start.

[the one]

These are my settings below

Start Servers [?] 5 default

Minimum Spare Servers [?] 5 default

Maximum Spare Servers [?] 10 default

Server Limit (Maximum: 20,000) [?] 256 default

Max Clients [?] 150 default

Max Requests Per Child [?] 10000 default

Keep-Alive [?] On

Keep-Alive Timeout [?] 5 default

Max Keep-Alive Requests [?] Unlimited 100 default

Timeout [?] 300 default

All the above are set to the default is this ok or would you suggest anything else

Many thanks

[final kaoss]

Here is what I have for my vps (it has 1GB ram)

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15

##
## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)
## 

# prefork MPM
# StartServers: number of server processes to start
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare
# ServerLimit: maximum value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the server
# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 300
</IfModule>

# worker MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 5
MaxClients 75
MinSpareThreads 1
MaxSpareThreads 4 
ThreadsPerChild 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 300
</IfModule>

[the one]

Originally Posted by final kaoss

Here is what I have for my vps (it has 1GB ram)

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15

##
## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)
## 

# prefork MPM
# StartServers: number of server processes to start
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare
# ServerLimit: maximum value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the server


# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 300
</IfModule>

# worker MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 5
MaxClients 75
MinSpareThreads 1
MaxSpareThreads 4 
ThreadsPerChild 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 300
</IfModule>

Many thanks i have 75 gb ram so i hope i am getting the most from it

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by the one

Would you suggest i turn this on or not.I am with interserver and they are really good

Turn it on, there isnt any good reason not to.