After working with some RHEL 5 servers fairly regularly, I noticed a reduction in Apache 2.2 performance when many connections were made to the server. There were messages like these streaming into the access_log as well:
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Aug/2008:12:00:10 -0400] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 2269 “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) (internal dummy connection)”
127.0.0.1 - - [...]
Most web developers expend a lot of energy optimizing queries, reducing the overhead of functions, and streamlining their application’s overall flow. However, many forget that one of the simplest adjustments is the compression of data as it leaves the web server.
Luckily, mod_deflate makes this easy, and the Apache documentation has a handy initial configuration [...]
By default, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 sets the default character set in Apache to UTF-8. Your specific web application may need for the character set to be set to a different value, and the change can be made fairly easily. Here’s an example where the character set is changed to ISO-8859-1:
First, adjust [...]