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Well, now we know what happened to I Am Not A Mod
Posted on 11/05/2012 11:20:31 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Some good news perhaps. John says he has found a problem with one of the servers and he's going to try to configure around it. But it'll take him a couple hours or more before he's ready to test it. Hang in there. Prayers up that it works!
What Revel said .. same experience here for the past half hour or so .. overall tho, light years better than recently.
Nginx and Lighttpd are probably the two best-known asynchronous servers and Apache is undoubtedly the best known process-based server. [...] The main advantage of the asynchronous approach is scalability. In a process-based server, each simultaneous connection requires a thread which incurs significant overhead. An asynchronous server, on the other hand, is event-driven and handles requests in a single (or at least, very few) threads.
While a process-based server can often perform on par with an asynchronous server under light loads, under heavier loads they usually consume far too much RAM which significantly degrades performance. Also, they degrade much faster on less powerful hardware or in a resource-restricted environment such as a VPS.
That, I believe, was the big gotchya. The front-end is running under a VPS-- Virtual Private Server. I think it just hit a point where the election-fueled load overwhelmed the code path in Linux-VServer and grinded to a halt at the kernel level.
As for ease, yes, frighteningly easy. Apache was kind of a hack, using it to reverse proxy the heavy backend services--when Apache is primarily a web server-- to make it fill this role took quite a bit of configuration. And it's just messy as the quote illustrates. nginx is mostly a reverse proxy, it's designed primarily for what we need, an interface to several heavy backend web services, passive load balancing, and light static serving. I haven't even read the documentation, just copy-pasta FAQ examples and tweaked for our specific configuration. Now time to hit the books!
Yes, we’re back to having a database load. That at least is Just a Simple Matter of Programming to solve, not voodoo magic like the last problem. Need to mop of goat guts. Signing out.
As someone pointed out in another thread. The search Feature just became inoperative. But Hey Don’t even worry about fixing it if it might break the great improvement in speed you just made. A few duplicate articles won’t hurt anyone.
Smoke’n fast here in central FL, thanks.
Cool John. Thanks again. Oh and the search thing seems to be working now. Maybe that was just temporary.
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Well, now we know what happened to I Am Not A Mod
What a difference! LOL - love "Now time to hit the books!"
Maybe there's more to be had - tinker successfully! ~grin~ R
Fingers crossed, because it took me a long time to get into FR today....as has been the case for eons.
John too:
First time today that it opened! HOORAY!!
Reading this thread tells me that John found something and fixed it! Thank you...
Guess I better go and raise my monthly donation. I have truly been having withdrawal symptoms!
You’re gonna need the rest for Wednesday’s Bloody Marys too.
Easy for you to say!
Is that even in English?
Thank you ... Thank you
Testing...
That’s exactly what I thought it was!:)
A little Worcestershire sauce, twist of lemon and a sprinkling of black pepper, a Bloody Mary can be almost a meal, LOL.
bttt
Definite improvement here. I could only get on for a short while yesterday morning, and late last night. This morning, after about 30 minutes, the site went down. But now it’s smooth and fast——no issues at all.
Thanks to you and John!
...and that includes prayers of thanks for John Robinson and all his hard work!!!!!
Thank you Jim - I was just able to log on for the first time in a week. Things seem to be faster as well - THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!
John, I know I speak for everyone when I say
Thank YOU.
Sounds like you have a handle on what was wrong
and hopefully this will keep us all in touch.
THANK YOU again.
Tet68
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