[otrs] Re: some performance related questions

[kerneljack]

On Jan 3, 2008 6:06 PM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) <nils at lemonbit.nl> wrote:
> kerneljack wrote:
>
> > I do have a 'mod_perl-1.99_16-4.5' RPM installed on the system. How
> > can I enable it?
>
> Use the configuration file for your apache version that uses mod_perl.
> See the scripts dir for a couple of different apache configuration
> files.
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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Ok I have managed to get it working with mod_perl now. I had to use
the scripts in /opt/otrs/scripts as Nils suggested (thanks). I had to
change a few references to Apache2::Reload (and others) to
Apache::Reload, etc because my CentOS comes with Apache2, but for some
reason calls the modules 'Apache::' only, not 'Apache2::'.

I have tested it with 'http://server.name/otrs/index.pl?Agent=foo' and
I get an error page with ModPerl references so it is definitely
working now :-)

Now I have ended up with 6 httpd processes that start up initially,
taking up about 40M each. The page load time is much better now, about
< 1.5 secs which is a lot better than 3-4 secs.

I was just wondering what I could do next to improve performance even
further? I am expecting an initial load of about 10-15 users. How do I
optimize to get the best performance for this? Should I use tools like
'httperf' to test? Should I increase/decrease the number of httpd
processes or play around with the MaxClients setting? Remember I have
only 256MB of RAM to play with.

Hope you can offer some insights...