On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have recently added a site to our server which hosts 30 other sites. > The new site uses modperl & MySQL. After adding the new site, the server > we were on (shared server at a national server farm) had major resource > problems (too many connections & load avg up to 30 not infrequently) & > eventually crashed. We moved to a new dedicated server which gave us more > resources, but we're still experiencing intermittent sluggishness - load > avg approaching 10 - and this is before this new site really becomes > active. Maybe 20 logins per day currently - in 10 days we'll have ~ 4000.
Probably the biggest bang for the buck with the least effort or code changes is to set up a lightweight (i.e. non-mod_perl) reverse proxy httpd in front of the httpd that is running mod_perl: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.html#Adding_a_Proxy_Server_in_http_Accelerator_Mode Lots of other good tuning info at: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html HTH, Larry Leszczynski
