Joe Dog Software - Using #Siege To Tune #Apache on GNU/#Linux
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Siege is a great tool to measure #web site #performance and establish benchmark metrics. What do you do if siege shows your performance stinks? This document illustrates how to tune your server and validate those tunings with siege.
For the purpose of this exercise we will tune a very old Linux server to effectively serve static content at a rate of 200 requests per second. We’ll start with an out-of-box apache configuration and build from there