To the server admins:
upload.wikimedia.org is currently running apache, but is only serving
static image files as far as I can tell.
You should consider using thttpd instead, which uses less memory and
would lower the load averages. It also seems to handle more simultaneous
users than apache.
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/benchmarks.html
License is BSD, there is a debian package.
Anyway, this is just some (probably impractical) idea I just had...
Regards,
Stephan Walter
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