Re: 100 simultaneous connections, critical limit?

> 7: Profile your machine under parallel load.  Note that machine simos 
> (i.e. the kind you get from the ab utility) generally represent about 10 
> to 20 real people.  I.e. if your machine runs well with 20 machine simos, 
> you can bet on it handling 100 or more real people with ease.

8.  Use the Turck MMCache - it rocks.  Works absolutely perfectly and 
caches compiled versions of all your PHP scripts - cut the load on our 
server by a factor of 5.