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Old 17th May 2008
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Originally Posted by kienjakenobi View Post
I can believe that this small amount of traffic is all ready choking the system.
IMO, it's not behaving as if it is choked, as in overloaded, it is behaving as if it's a contention -- almost like a quasi deadly embrace.

I'm not a LAMP expert, but, in the past, I have had to tackle SQL issues. Regardless of the brand -- MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, POSTGRES, et al -- they all have worker threads and background threads (housekeeping). It's behaving as if there's a housekeeping thread lighting off and locking down user-visible commits.

I say this because my experience with this site stalling is regardless of time of day. The trigger is either time (interval), threshold, or event. It really doesn't "feel" like load.

All that said, you can rule the world with lighttpd alone, or lighttpd and postgres. (postgres for a bunch of reasons, but the key one being it is far more and better at self-tuning.)

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