Ski> Thanks for all the ideas.  I think folks are right about the
Ski> backend.  I am not sure why it was having problems when before
Ski> under loads like this it did not have any issues.  I wonder if it
Ski> is because the proxy looks like 1 machine instead of a bunch of
Ski> different machines (not really sure how all this works).

Ski> Any way, the backend is an apache2/php black box.  I have managed
Ski> to increase the php memory as I was seeing many, many Php memory
Ski> exhausted errors.  Now I see very few.  I have also increased the
Ski> number of workers.

Ski> Unfortunately, the load has really dropped now that school has
Ski> started so I am not really able to test it.

Why don't you fire up 'siege' and point it at your site?
http://www.joedog.org/siege-home/  This will let you stress test the
site under more controlled situations.

John
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