WEB SERVER LATENCY REDUCTION STUDY
Fatma Mbarek
fmbarek@iis.p.lodz.plLodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science (Poland)
Volodymyr Mosorov
Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science (Poland)
Rafał Wojciechowski
Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science (Poland)
Abstract
This paper investigates the characteristics of web server response delay in order to understand and analyze the optimisation techniques of reducing latency. The analysis of the latency behavior for multi-process Apache HTTP server with different thread count and various workloads, was made. It was indicated, that the insufficient number of threads used by the server handling the concurrent requests of clients, is responsible for increasing latency under various loads. The problem can be solved by using a modified web server configuration allowing to reduce the response time.
Keywords:
web server, latency, threadReferences
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Fatma Mbarekfmbarek@iis.p.lodz.pl
Lodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science Poland
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Volodymyr MosorovLodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science Poland
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Rafał WojciechowskiLodz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Computer Science Poland
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