By vucelic
Hello, I’m running a site on 512MB 20GB 1TB Ubuntu LAMP droplet. Its average 25-60 concurrent visitors all day. It’s working normally some time 4 -5 h then in moment no free memory, apache stop responding and site is off. I set swap file 1GB and swappiness=10 and when its working normally with free -m I see that there is about 160MB physical memory free and whole swap file. I think that problem is with MaxClients in apache2.conf , and I’m not sure what values to set. I see that max value is 256 for this server. What will be the optimal settings?
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also I tested with blitz.io 50 users memory is full, swap almost and after the test done, memory is not freeing
I’m beginner in all this. <br>I experimented put down MaxKeepAliveRequests to 90 <br>Keep Alive Timeout to 4 <br>I put down MaxClients to 50 and <br>upper MaxRequestsPerChild to 150 and for now working <br> <br>@Pablo Would I get a better performance with Nginx (speed,…) <br>And whats the procedure to change apache with Nginx? <br>Thanks in advance
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