KeepAlive off?

fitter_happier · 03-28-2009, 03:42 PM

Hi. I am testing IIS and Apache for my honours project dissertation. One of my objectives is to see how performance can vary when Keep Alive is either enabled or disabled. In IIS its simple enough to do as you just check a box. But I'm confused about the relation between "timeout" and KeepAlive. If KeepAlive is disabled, does timeout values count? In Apache I think there is a KeepAliveTimeOut and a Timeout directive. But I'm not sure what the difference is. Here is a screenshot of what I've set up

I was planning on commenting out "KeepAlive off" when doing the standard baseline test, but for my objective on KeepAlive, I was going to change "off" to "on" and uncomment the KeepAliveTimeout value. As you can tell I am new to this. There's a lot that I'm not understanding about testing web servers here and help will really be appreciated. Is my syntax right? Does it matter where I put them values? For some reason they were not even in the HTTPD.CONF file what so ever. I had to add them.

03-28-2009, 03:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
fitter_happier Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Windows Vista	KeepAlive off? Hi. I am testing IIS and Apache for my honours project dissertation. One of my objectives is to see how performance can vary when Keep Alive is either enabled or disabled. In IIS its simple enough to do as you just check a box. But I'm confused about the relation between "timeout" and KeepAlive. If KeepAlive is disabled, does timeout values count? In Apache I think there is a KeepAliveTimeOut and a Timeout directive. But I'm not sure what the difference is. Here is a screenshot of what I've set up I was planning on commenting out "KeepAlive off" when doing the standard baseline test, but for my objective on KeepAlive, I was going to change "off" to "on" and uncomment the KeepAliveTimeout value. As you can tell I am new to this. There's a lot that I'm not understanding about testing web servers here and help will really be appreciated. Is my syntax right? Does it matter where I put them values? For some reason they were not even in the HTTPD.CONF file what so ever. I had to add them.