9. Performance and ScalabilityTuning Apache Understanding Performance and Scalability Tuning Your Hardware Increasing OS Limits Increasing OS Limits on Processes Increasing OS File Descriptors Controlling External Processes Improving File System Performance Handling Symbolic Links Tuning Network and Status Settings Preventing Abuse Limiting Connections and Bandwidth Dealing with Robots Reverse Proxies and Load Balancers Caching and Compression Module-specific Optimizations Alternatives to Apache |