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Optimize your apache and myql

To optimize your apache and mysql we recommend editing the config files as show below:

mysql file located at /etc/my.cnf:

[mysqld]
max_connections = 400
key_buffer = 16M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 32M
join_buffer_size = 1M
read_buffer_size = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 2M
table_cache = 1024
thread_cache_size = 286
interactive_timeout = 25
wait_timeout = 1000
connect_timeout = 10
max_allowed_packet = 16M
max_connect_errors = 10
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 16M
query_cache_type = 1
tmp_table_size = 16M
skip-innodb

[mysqld_safe]
open_files_limit = 8192

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 32M
sort_buffer = 32M
read_buffer = 16M
write_buffer = 16M

apache config file located at /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:

Timeout 30
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 120
KeepAliveTimeout 3
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 5
StartServers 1
MaxClients 250
MaxRequestsPerChild 0