RE: Optimizing for web?

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Any suggestions on optimizing a 170 for serving web pages, etc, with
>some 8-5 application serving?  2290 cpu, 320m memory, plenty of free
>disk space.

In my experience, most of the configuration options available have only a
minimal impact on performance.

You might try a few things to optimize TCP/IP.  CHGTCPA TCPRCVBUF 1024000,
TCPSNDBUF 1024000.

Simplify the configuration - applies to the HTTP server configuration file,
and TCP routing.

I have the same size box as your.  My biggest  performance gains have
resulted from improvements in web application design and coding techniques.
I'm in the process of developing a web application framework.

If you use Java and Websphere don't be surprised by poor performance -
especially with EJB's.  For these types of applications, IBM recommends a
CPW rating that is 5 times greater than what you have.

Nathan.


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