Hi John, On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:29 PM, John Lauro wrote:
> I would probably do that sort of throttling at the OS level with iptables, > etc... Hmmm.... How? I don't want to throw away the requests, just queue them. Looking for iptables rate limiting it seems that you can only drop the request. Then again: > That said, before that I would investigate why the wiki is so slow... > Something probably isn't configured right if it chokes with only a few > simultaneous accesses. I mean, unless it's embedded server with under 32MB > of RAM, the hardware should be able to handle that... Yeah, it's running pretty old software on a pretty old server. It should be upgraded but that is a fair bit of work; I was hoping that a bit of configuration could make the situation fair again... Thanks, Wout.
