Just a quick comment. I had keepalive turned on for my webserver but set to a low timeout value of 2 seconds. The server is getting a lot of traffic this mornin

Just a quick comment. I had keepalive turned on for my webserver but set to a low timeout value of 2 seconds. The server is getting a lot of traffic this morning and was approaching maxclients. I had a few reports of pages or images not loading which suggested that the server was occasionally out of connections. I just turned off keepalive completely and wow! I've basically doubled (or more) the amount of traffic I can handle. The down-side is that browsers need top open a new connection for every page component they load. But things will load more reliably now and I can handle more traffic. I have a new server ordered which comes online today with lots more memory. When I deploy that I'll probably try turning it back on to make loading faster for my users. Then when things get hairy again I'll turn it off. Come to think of it it'd be nice if I could do that without rebooting apache based on server load. Mark.