This is typical and should be a comfortable level.
Slowness on the wikis
from pliny right now is probably due to either Apache problems or database
locking issues. I'm open to suggestions.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
Get more, bigger hardware, and put the databases and web servers on
different machines. Or did you mean constructive suggestions?
Well, there are a lot of options out there:
1) Try PostgreSQL
2) Seperate Web Server & Database
3) Try switching to a new OS that handles better under excessive load
(FBSD?)
4) Try a 2.5 kernel? (ugh?)
5) Get faster hardware
The problem, really, is that strange things happen under load that
heavy. When it gets to that point, it becomes very difficult to
pinpoint the bottlenecks. It certainly isn't helpful that the database
and web server are probably causing cyclical problems between each
other. Is there a reason why we can't put all the web servers on one
machine, and the database on the other? Is the CPU strain from the web
servers on larousse too much for pliny sans database? Or is the memory
strain from the database on pliny too much for larousse sans web server?
--
Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN