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Oct
20
answered Block access to every file in the site but index.htm in Nginx
Oct
19
comment Poor load balancer performance on rackspace and centos
Please show us the actual output of your command. By the way, parallel 40 instances * 50 calls per second (your config values) == 2000 requests per second. Maybe that's your problem?
Oct
19
comment Server hitting high loads and becoming very slow
@srchulo See httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mpm_common.html#maxclients, set them to be the same if you want to avoid the warning, and it should be fine unless you see the site get slow (which indicates resource consumption).
Oct
19
answered Will a router allow network traffic from a static IP?
Oct
19
revised On-site campus infrastructure migration to Amazon EC2. Feasible?
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Oct
19
answered On-site campus infrastructure migration to Amazon EC2. Feasible?
Oct
19
comment Idle RAM usage increased from 144MB to 510 MB after upgrade to MySQL v5.5.16
@webworm Sounds like a good price, and a good way to learn. I'd be happy to help you learn in any way I can.
Oct
19
comment Idle RAM usage increased from 144MB to 510 MB after upgrade to MySQL v5.5.16
256MB is more than enough for a small Wordpress install. I think what you're seeing through the control panel includes the cache usage. A lot of data would have been read form disk in the process of updating, and I strongly presume that is showing as utilization. Take a look at that other question I referenced. I don't know what you're paying now, but I've found a personal love for EC2 micro instances.
Oct
19
answered Router for a heavy video streaming dependent network
Oct
19
answered Advanced traceroute tool for Linux
Oct
19
answered Idle RAM usage increased from 144MB to 510 MB after upgrade to MySQL v5.5.16
Oct
19
answered Correct DNS settings for my server setup
Oct
19
comment MySQL Locking Up INNODB Tables
@Obi dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html
Oct
19
comment Server hitting high loads and becoming very slow
Don't forget to accept the answer if it works for you!
Oct
19
answered MySQL Locking Up INNODB Tables
Oct
19
revised Server hitting high loads and becoming very slow
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Oct
19
comment Server hitting high loads and becoming very slow
I might even cut the server limit down to 6... possibly bump MaxClients higher... but yeah -- glad that seems to be the right direction for you.
Oct
19
comment Server hitting high loads and becoming very slow
@srchulo I counted 215+MB of real memory used by Apache. Knock your MaxSpareServers and related options down in httpd.conf. Unless you're serving notable amounts of traffic, I bet you can get by with 3.
Oct
19
revised Postfix rejects all incoming mail (Client host rejected: Access denied)
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Oct
19
comment Server hitting high loads and becoming very slow
@srchulo Your options basically boil down to smaller memory footprint or larger server. You could run fewer Apache instances or configure MySQL for a low amount of memory usage. Other commonly installed software that will monitor IO usage includes iostat. Despite that, atop is part of most distributions, though rarely installed by default. If you've got root, I highly suggest adding it.