[OGDev] URGENT Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance

[Paul Makepeace]

# chmod a+r /var/log/apache/*openguides*

What I'm looking for right now is a commitment to solve the problem,
and a date by which that commitment is to be fulfilled. I'm sorry to
put it in such strong language but I have literally been asking this
for two, three? years, and no dates have ever been forthcoming.

OG is at the point where it's interfering with other customers, and
it's increasingly difficult for me to keep saying "well, I have asked
them not to do that".

I'm looking for a response along the lines of,

"We will test and thrash a local instance of OG London with FastCGI
and Apache Bench on our home boxen by date YYYY-MM-DD. At this point
we'd like to set up a test instance on stix on date YYYY-MM-DD, and
let it bake for a week. If that's OK, we'll move the install over on
YYYY-MM-DD."

You'll notice the prevalance of YYYY-MM-DD which thus far in any
responses has been missing :-)

P

On 7/25/07, Earle Martin <openguides at downlode.org> wrote:
> On 25/07/07, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
> > stix's load is currently running around 3 and that's mostly postgresql
> > and index.cgi. It seems to occasionally get like this and requires a
> > Pg & Apache restart.
> >
> > OK, I'm sorry to have to do this but if I don't get a response to
> > planning how to fix this load issue I'm going to take London
> > Openguides offline this evening.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that, Paul. Afraid the mechanics of why this is
> happening is beyond me. Can anyone on the list suggest methods I can
> use to investigate? However, my sysadmin skills are weak to
> non-existent, so please speak slowly and with small words and plenty
> of explanation (i.e. "use valgrind, man!!1!" won't be of much use to
> me).
>
> It could be waves of spam, rogue crawlers gone mad or who knows what,
> but unfortunately I do not have access to any Apache log files on
> stix, so trying to find out anything that way is a non-starter.
>
> If Paul is forced to take London.og offline, I will try and produce a
> low-overhead script that only reads and displays pages in a bland way
> so at least incoming links don't all break.
>
> Earle
>
>
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> Earle Martin
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>