Alan Olsen wrote: > > I am sure you can find a number of willing mirror sites. (I would also > suggest publishing signed and/or md5 hashes of the contents, lest there be > tampering by the Forces of Evil(tm).) Actually what's needed is some performance tuning. Login to the box, and run top when it's not under high load. Note how much RAM each Apache process is eating up. Open a few connections, count again, et. repeat until you see the OS moving some of the apache's to swap. Set the MaxClients setting in httpd.conf to that number minus one or two. Increase the MaxRequestsPerChild to something like 50 or 100, that way they'll get reused longer. Turn the KeepAlive parameter on. Should JYA be slashdotted/druged/wired/usenetted, etc, the load would prevent mostly everyone and their mother from seeing the content, however, it wouldn't cause the server to thrash and ultimately die. Which means once the traffic requests slow down, the browsers will be able to get at the content. I think what might help JYA is to one more thing: Rather than setup mirrors everywhere, setup a single private mirror that feeds a wide bunch of SQUID servers. If we could get a few willing folks to run Squids that feed off of this private mirror, the popular files would be distributed amongst them and the site would stay up. Further, this wouldn't require JYA to actively push content to more than one server at a time, so that eases web management up a bit. He'd also need to setup some sort of round robin DNS, or a CGI script that randomly munges the urls to point at such squids rather than the main site. Sort of a poor man's Akamai net. :) IMHO, I think this is a good solution, and won't require lots of hard drive space, although personally, I would welcome having live copies of cryptome on my spindles. :) -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunder.net ------------
