Graham -- Thanks for the response. I've been cruising around the web trying to find the best solutions for the maximum open files errors i've been drawing.
The support team at my host advised me that memcached was the source of the problem -- but I've been getting different answers from different people. And I'd love to hear more of what y'all have to say here. According to the postgresql server administration manuals, there is a setting called `max_files_per_process` that could be tuned as well. My main memcached concern is that I'm only getting a 20 percent hitrate, according to django-memcached reports. And that's despite the fact that I've configured the machine to do a Django-ish sitewide cache. A sysadmin I consulted suggested that my memcached startup command might have an error. I ran: $ memcached -d -p 11211 -u nobody -m 64 -c 1024 -P /var/run/memcached/ memcached.pid And he suggests: $ memcached -d -p 11211 -u nobody -m 64 -c 1024 -P /var/run/memcached/ memcached.pid -l 127.0.0.1:11211 To answer your question, my global apache conf has these basic settings: $ httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c And from httpd.conf... Timeout 20 KeepAlive Off MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 KeepAliveTimeout 5 <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 4000 </IfModule> Any feedback would be appreciated. I'm a developer who is trying to take on these sysadmin responsibilities on a limited basis so my coworkers have space to deploy new development techniques at a low cost. It's obviously not my area of expertise -- and I'm scandalously dependent on the kindness of strangers (and bloggers!) like yourselves. Thanks again for your great product and support community. On Apr 20, 5:38 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 21, 3:54 am, Ben Welsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm interested in trying to improve the performance of my memcached > > system -- but not sure where to turn for guidance on best practices. > > Are there any resources the list would recommend? > > > I'm managing a sitewide cache for a Postgres-Django-mod_python-Apache > > site roughly along the lines of what's described here. > > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/cache/ > > > Recently I've been bumping up again the numfiles limit on my rig and > > am now embarking on a mission to find solutions that might reduce the > > problem. Any advice appreciated, as always. > > This sort of problem can be related to what Apache MPM you are using. > So, are you using Apache prefork MPM or worker MPM? What are the MPM > settings being used in respect of the MPM you are using? > > If your application is multithread safe, you may want to consider > using mod_wsgi in daemon mode instead as then you get more precise > control over number of processes/threads being used independent of > main Apach MPM settings, and can restrict them to a smaller number. > > Graham
