On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:09:24PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > Hey guys, > So some of you have heard that the load from today was pretty close to > crippling for a while. We got it under 'control' for a bit but it wasn't > happy. Mike suggested making some of our pages in the wiki static so we > pulled them out using firefox and then put them onto the site using > apache redirects. That worked out okay to bring the load down. We're > still get beaten pretty badly but at least the load is manageable. > > Let's assume for now that the next N releases will be just like this. > That the world will melt down. I think we should probably put together > some docs on what steps to take. Here are some items we did today: > > 1. iptables rate limiting on fpserv: 2-4 new connection per ip for every > 10-20 seconds. > > 2. look at the logs, figure out where all the hits are going and make > those pages static. You can do this by using firefox to save the page > (it grabs images and css, too) I think dynamic web pages are pretty overrated... You can use mod_cache if your web application (zope, wiki, ..) correctly generates pages with Etag, Last-Modified or Expires tag. For more information read: http://www.us.apachecon.com/presentations/WE18/WE18_Performance_Up.pdf there is nice example with MoinMoin at wiki.apache.org. > What else should we be adding? More servers + load balancing? Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
