On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/10/29 Larry Shaffer <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> The recent downtime of qgis.org sites reminds me of several corporate >> websites I've worked with that, due to design requirements, needed to >> remain with older server software and code base. The older sites could >> not handle the bot traffic, and needed extra up-front security and a >> cdn system to remain viable as their traffic grew. >> >> I've been involved with Cloudflare.com shortly after its inception > > > Hi, > > It sounds very very interesting but unfortunately they run closed > source proprietary software, even if is SAAS I would stay away from > that. > > Does anything similar exists in the FOSS world? > > BTW, yesterday I saw from "top" peaks of 6 to 12 load average, > probably caused by a combination of C++ code compilation, dpkg > packaging, a couple of bots indexing content and ruby/python web apps > running, probably too much for a VPS, but the website has been running > without major downtimes during the past 2 years. > > Let's see if we can do some further caching/optimization and if the > renice of packaging has any effect. If the problem persists we must > obviously find a solution.
it might help to run any non-critical processes with nice and ionice like this: nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 <whatever> > > -- > Alessandro Pasotti > w3: www.itopen.it > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
