[hunchentoot-devel] Hunchentoot behind apache http proxy (performance)

[Hans Hübner]

I wrote a blog entry about how we try to reduce the load on our
(Hunchentoot) backend and whet we want in a front end.  See
http://netzhansa.blogspot.com/2008/07/building-load-resilient-web-servers.html
- Comments gladly discussed here, too.

-Hans

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 17:02, Andrei Stebakov <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:
> The moment came when I had to move all of my site from being partially
> static http web pages to pages generated (or served from cached files) by
> Hunchentoot.
> The overall performance noticeably degraded in terms of response time. Even
> in cases when HT does nothing but serves a static file from its cache the
> response time increased from 0.3 sec to 1.5 sec (tested with httperf).
> I am running Apache 2 on Ubuntu (everything latest) with sbcl 1.0.18.
> I understand that when ht running behind the proxy the response time should
> increase. I wonder what can I do to optimize.
> Is it time to run HT as a standalone server? I still have a bunch of pages
> that I need to serve statically and lately my sbcl had problems with GC so
> it crashes time after time from heap exhaustion,  so I am a bit
> uncomfortable to switch completely to Hunchentoot.
> I wonder how do you guys solve those problems?
>
> Thank you,
> Andrew
>
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