We had a similar issue a bit back - and although it sounds similar - based on your followups it probably isnt, but will just toss this out there anyhows. We were experiencing connection timeouts when load would ramp up. Doing some digging we learned that our firewall between the servers bandwidth would get consumed by a large wordpress load - and this in essence backed up the rest of the requests until they timed out.
We fixed that load issue which reduced the data passing through and have expereinced a significant performance boost in our app let alone reduction of these timeout issues On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>wrote: > > > Am 12.10.2013 19:45, schrieb Jørn Dahl-Stamnes: > > On Saturday 12 October 2013 17:36, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> so someone did "optimize table" on a large table > >> you do yourself not a favour restarting the server in such a moment > > > > 7 hours before the server was shut down, we did a alter table to add a > primary > > key to a table that is read-only from the web application. > > which means the table is most likely completly copied > in a temp file and depending on the table size this > takes time - you killed the alter table i guess > >
