On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:40:00AM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > Hrmm... maybe it was Apache that was croaking under the load.
It wasn't Apache, after all. The rewrite condition wasn't configured properly, so every request, even for files in cache, was spawning a process of the Lurker CGI, which is relatively expensive compared to Apache serving out static HTML files. I've fixed it now, and the system's been holding up pretty well against the Slashdot-like hammer-one-URL sort of traffic spike. I don't think anything I can afford at the moment can truly be immune to the Slashdot-effect, but this new setup should be much more resilient. Thanks Migs, for the Slashdot effect, and to everyone for the feedback. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
