Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Sun, 16 Jan:
> Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 08 Jan:
> 
> > Either someone changed the apache config to keep less open sockets or
> > less concurrent processes, or apache, of it's own accord, came to the
> > conclusion it can make do with less. You tell us which.
> 
> I didn't really think Apache can make its own decisions like that, but
> than I took a long look at this week's graph for "number of apache
> procs" right here:
> http://jenna.scso.com/hotsanic/apps/apache2.html
> since thursday morning it seems that for no apperent reason (or logic)
> Apache has changed it's minservers/maxservers bahavior (though no new
> binary was installed and I haven't adited the config file in 10 days
> (it's dated 6 January). loads on the site are the same, as are the CPU
> and netstat connections:

doesn't anybody have any ideas?

the config for that was not moved from Debian's defaults, which is the
prefork MPM and the settings are:
    StartServers 5
    MinSpareServers 5
    MaxSpareServers 10
    MaxClients 20

as for my other problem:

> http://jenna.scso.com/hotsanic/netstat/connections.html

The large number of "syn recieved" since my move to Bezeq... they claim
they have no delays (as Shachar suggested) but this graph is still odd,
since I'd expect a delayed handshake will be followed by a delayed FIN
sequence as well, but it is not the case here. Could this be a syn
attack of some sort? how can I tell for sure? should I turn on some sort
of syn cookie mechanism? Right now many of the web users complain about
coming-and-going slowness that we can't explain or measure (it COULD be
a problem with the link only to specific ISPs).

Also, the NOC at Nezeq Benleumi say this could be blamed on a NIC with
"a problematic buffer". I am not sure what they mean but since I have
two NICs on that board (an e100 and an e1000) I don't mind switching to
test.

any ideas welcome, as always....


-- 
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Ira Abramov
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