On 14 October 2012 16:34, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/10/12 00:22, David Gerard wrote:
> Apache connections are really pretty damn cheap
these days. Is
> KeepAlive actually a good or bad thing for MediaWiki?
The apache docs say:
In some cases this has been shown to result in an
almost 50% speedup
in latency times for HTML documents with many images.
--
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#KeepAlive
I'd keep it on, but with a small KeepAliveTimeout
Mmm. Say YMMV. In our case the constraint is memory (we're fine for
CPU and bandwidth), and our next Reddit-dotting not knocking us over
again. Here's a graph, guess when I switched off KeepAlive:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2jczzht.jpg
- d.