Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Late breaking Meeting news

2009-01-07 Thread Damian Brasher
Alan Pope wrote: * 7 in the last 12 months have been 1st Saturday, 12 in the last 24 months, 24 in the last 36 months. So it seems we were more 1st saturday during 2005/2006 but during 2007 and 2008 we tended to the 2nd Saturday. I checked the meeting records;

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:07:30PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:04:05PM +, Chris Smith wrote: Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Test message. Looks good. And this one is bad for me. (Ubuntu Intrepid, gpg 1.4.9) This

[Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Damian Brasher
Morning I need to maintain a register of attendees and potential attendees for the BB meeting on Saturday 17th January at Southampton University. Can everyone who definitely or may attend send me: 1) Name* 2) MAC address(s) for WLAN (no need to send again if you forwarded your MAC(s) to me for

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/7 Damian Brasher l...@interlinux.co.uk: Can everyone who definitely or may attend send me: 1) Name* *required. What if they don't? This is a significant change from previous meetings we've held. We have never (to my knowledge) had to give a list of names to Southampton. Doing so

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:13:15PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Test message. Looks good. Both bad for me. So perhaps it is happening at mailman.lug.org.uk. Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:13:45PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Test message. BAD Good for me! :) signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:07:30PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: Adam, Andy -- what versions of gpg are you using? 1.4.6. Debian Etch package. Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:33:10PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:13:15PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Test message. Looks good. Both bad for me. So perhaps it is happening at mailman.lug.org.uk. Possibly

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Hugo, On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:44:09PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:33:10PM +, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:13:15PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Test message. Looks good. Both bad

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread James Ogden
Send both myself and Adam a mail offlist (possibly copying the list as well if people aren't getting too irritated by this by now)? Irrespective of whether people are irritated or not, isn't this potentially a massively serious problem? James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Damian Brasher
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/1/7 Damian Brasher l...@interlinux.co.uk: Can everyone who definitely or may attend send me: 1) Name* *required. What if they don't? Members will have to provide a name to security upon entry who now inhabit a new reception desk at weekends thus slowing down their

[Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's - amended

2009-01-07 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi (I'll send this as a reminder later next week) I need to maintain a register of attendees and potential attendees (HLUG members and non-members) for the BB meeting on Saturday 17th January at Southampton University for security reasons. Can everyone who definitely or may attend send me: 1)

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread Vic
960264 kB RAM Put some more RAM in. It's cheap, and will give you a better return on your efforts than anything else... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread David Ramsden
Vic wrote: 960264 kB RAM Put some more RAM in. It's cheap, and will give you a better return on your efforts than anything else... Thanks Vic. I did say to the owners that the real solution is increasing the amount of RAM. My guess before I had shell access was that it was swapping

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 15:35:08 +, David Ramsden wrote: I'm also looking in to implementing a PHP caching system like APC. Might be less-effort to put squid in front of Apache... Also look at avoiding use of .htaccess files, disabling DNS lookups for logging, and similar things.

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread Jim Kissel
David Ramsden wrote: Hi, I've recently been helping out with a server performance problem, for a club I'm a member of. The site runs a vBulletin forum (PHP+MySQL). The server also hosts a few other domains but these are personal blogging sites and don't receive too many hits. In a

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread David Ramsden
Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 15:35:08 +, David Ramsden wrote: I'm also looking in to implementing a PHP caching system like APC. Might be less-effort to put squid in front of Apache... Also look at avoiding use of .htaccess files, disabling DNS lookups for logging,

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 16:43:18 +, David Ramsden wrote: Using squid as opposed to something like APC sounds like a better idea. :) The website administrator has just turned off images within signatures and the performance has increased significantly. So the ability to cache images

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread David Ramsden
Jim Kissel wrote: David Ramsden wrote: Hi, I've recently been helping out with a server performance problem, for a club I'm a member of. The site runs a vBulletin forum (PHP+MySQL). The server also hosts a few other domains but these are personal blogging sites and don't receive too

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Dr Adam Trickett
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, Simon Huggins wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:07:30PM +, Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:04:05PM +, Chris Smith wrote: Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Test message. Looks good. And

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Dr Adam Trickett
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/1/7 Damian Brasher l...@interlinux.co.uk: Can everyone who definitely or may attend send me: 1) Name* *required. What if they don't? The security guard can get very uppity as I found out last time. Not that I'm blaming him he was only

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello Damian I'll probably be there, so please add my name to the in-crowd list. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Kelly Dunlop
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:44:36PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/1/7 Damian Brasher l...@interlinux.co.uk: Can everyone who definitely or may attend send me: 1) Name* *required. What if they don't? The security guard can get very

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's - amended

2009-01-07 Thread john
Hi I intend to attend on Saturday 17th January. John Eayrs On Wednesday 07 January 2009 14:14:57 Damian Brasher wrote: Hi (I'll send this as a reminder later next week) I need to maintain a register of attendees and potential attendees (HLUG members and non-members) for the BB meeting on

Re: [Hampshire] Meeting 17th Jan - Register and MAC address's

2009-01-07 Thread Tony Whitmore
Dr Adam Trickett wrote: The security guard can get very uppity as I found out last time. Not that I'm blaming him he was only following orders - let people in if they are on the list if not don't let them in. Whilst I appreciate that the implementation isn't within our direct control, that

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread David Ramsden
Steve Kemp wrote: [snip] The website administrator has just turned off images within signatures and the performance has increased significantly. So the ability to cache images is attractive. In that case you might find moving images to a dedicated host and setting up pound to proxy to

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 21:44:00 +, David Ramsden wrote: Unfortunately the forum software doesn't have the ability to specify a dedicated image host (out of the box). It'll use the main website URL for images. Then I guess ignore that suggestion then. But could mod_rewrite help here?

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread Graham Bleach
2009/1/7 David Ramsden da...@0wned.it: 1) Use Apache's prefork MPM: The site uses PHP which isn't considered thread safe, so I'm loathed to use the worker MPM. I did consider using the worker MPM with fastcgi/fcgid but again, I read stories of lots of defunct processes appearing. There are

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread David Ramsden
Steve Kemp wrote: [snip] But could mod_rewrite help here? Rewrite the URL to be img.domain.com, for any images at a certain location (i.e. /forums/customavatars/)? Would using mod_rewrite negate the benefits of using pound+ngnix to serve the image content? It could, but I think that any

Re: [Hampshire] Apache performance tuning.

2009-01-07 Thread David Ramsden
Graham Bleach wrote: [snip] +1 for Vic's suggestion of more RAM. You seem to be focussing on apache tuning. How much memory is mysqld using and does it increase under load? This is the first point in my little recommendations document I'm writing for the club. Looking at the website