[mirror-admin] enabling keep-alives

[Carlos Carvalho]

Günther Fischer (guenther.fischer at hrz.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote on 24 March 2008 19:41:
 >I have reset it to On. I had have changed it because I got more than
 >1000 httpds (apache) slow down the server. Now I have redirected ISOs
 >again to ftp to
 >solve the many connections an it helps for now.

For us, it's not the number of connections that makes the machine
slow, it's the disk access.

 >I'm tying now also lighttpd, but the configuration for servers with
 >high trafic is not strait forward.

Apache just sits there doing nothing because file transmissions are
done via sendfile, so all the job is done at the kernel. I'd expect
that, for a mirror, other http servers won't make a difference.

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