Performance: What's wrong with gallery.menalto.com?

valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2004-08-01 11:56

The server of gallery.menalto.com is often very slow.
Half of the time the requests take up to a minute or even fail.

Isn't there a better server available in the gallery dev team?
(I know sf is too slow, so it's not an option.)
 
bharat
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Joined: 2002-05-21
Posts: 7994
Posted: Sun, 2004-08-01 15:50

I know, it's very frustrating. The server that it's on is pretty fast (dual 2.4Ghz P4 Xeons) but it's getting beaten down by robots. I'm all for people indexing the site, but there have been 76 requests for robots.txt in the past 24 hours and some of the bots are hitting the site as hard as they can. Right now that's causing the wiki to go nuts trying to keep statistics and it winds up locking pages so that it can increment page counts. I'm trying to keep them out but every once in a while they overwhelm the server :-(
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2004-08-01 16:03

:(, have you ever "deactived" wiki, making it static or something like that?
or install another cheap webserver for wiki.gallery.menalto.com handling all wiki stuff and keep the dual xeon for the rest.
 
bharat
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Posted: Tue, 2004-08-03 04:54

All of that is way more effort than its worth. I just made my watchdog scripts slightly smarter about it so that should take care of this line of attack for a while. Usually every couple of months something new crops up and performance takes a hit for a little bit until I can give them the proper beatdown they deserve :-)