[haiku-sysadmin] Re: [haiku-web] Re: Re: Re: [haiku] Re: XKCD

  • From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:18:42 +0200

Hi,

On 15 October 2010 21:10, Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:57:30 +0200, Oliver Tappe
> <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Urias,
>>
>> On 2010-10-15 at 20:18:11 [+0200], Urias McCullough
>> <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Urias McCullough
>>> <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> http://baron.haiku-os.org/stats?host=vmweb.haiku-os.org&plugin=memory&timespan=day&button=Ok
>>> >
>>> > Ok, I'll try to fix this - I should have access to kill it, and it
>>> > should be documented where I think it is :)
>>>
>>> I have bumped the memory on "vmweb" to 2557mb and restarted it (was
>>> killed hard):
>>
>> That's fine - once the server is under heavy pressure, it won't serve
>>
>>> Hopefully it will stay up :P
>>
>> so far, it seems to stay in bounds.
>>
>> But, judging from the little info I have right now, the apache
>> processes eat a lot of memory. If
>> at all possible, we should try to move to a threaded apache setup,
>> but I'm not sure that's
>> feasible with Drupal being a php application. Anyway, I suppose we
>> should really invest some
>> more time to optimize our Drupal setup. Ideally, we'd pre-render
>> unchanged pages and serve them
>> statically, at least Drupal seems to support that in principle.
>>
>> cheers,
>>       Oliver
>
> Personally I prefer Cherokee over Apache.. it does a lot more with
> less and uses FastCGI:
>
> http://www.cherokee-project.com/
>
>
> As an alternative we could switch to fastcgi php on Apache.
> FastCGI handles heavy load better but might consume a little more
> memory as it requires
> resident php server processes that could be placed on local/remote
> nodes and connected
> to by Apache to serve php script requests.

Thanks for the suggestion, but we should separate performance issues
from this issue, which seems more like a major bug that occurs during
high loads than the result from this high load.

N>

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