Rob wrote:

> I have a dual 2.8Ghz Zeon

Do you mean Xeon?

> /1.5GB RAM running Redhat 7.2

Yikes! That's old and unsupported. I hope you've been tracking security
updates for all the packages you use on it.

> with Apache 2.0. I get over 500,000 page loads per day. The site is a
> combination of static and cgi pages.

You should find you get a hefty performance boost if you port your CGI
scripts to mod_perl (or whatever is appropriate for the language you write
your CGI in). That will probably bring more benefit then twiddling around
with the number of Clients and Servers Apache deals with at once.


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