Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 16:17:26 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD Web server will move from hub to freefall Message-ID: <19980614161726.A26037@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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The FreeBSD Web server will move from hub to freefall next week. The new web server is already installed and runs on http://freefall.freebsd.org. There are several reasons for the move: 1. hub is overloaded with non-interactive mail traffic. Dozens sendmail processes require all available memory and any cgi script wake up the pagedaemon. 2. disk i/o is sometimes awfully slow on hub - e.g. 20 seconds for `man man' 3. Many disk i/o havy cgi scripts (gnats, cvsweb,ports) read data over NFS from freefall. I guess 1/2 up to 1GB/day. The new server runs apache version 1.3beta7 and use the new reverse proxy feature (*). This feature enable load balancing and distributed HTTP traffic by URL (sic!). Currently freefall transparently forwarded the cgi scripts ^/cgi/(getmsg|search|mid|reg|url|dosendpr|gallery)(.cgi.*) to http://hub.freebsd.org/cgi/<script>; The other cgi scripts (query-pr, cvsweb, ports, man) and the static html pages are handled locally on freefall. This should dramatically reduce the NFS traffic between hub and freefall. All cgi scripts runs now on local disks. Please test the new server and report any bugs (especially not properly working cgi scripts) to webmaster@freebsd.org (*) See Load Balancing Your Web Site, by Ralf S.Engelschall http://www.WebTechniques.com/features/1998/05/engelschall/engelschall.shtml -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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