Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:28:08 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Keith Simonsen <bangel@elite.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: high load web server, resource limits? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012131126220.59730-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001213104831.94714G-100000@localhost>
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You might take a look at mod_perl... I've not used it, but my understanding is that there is a way to configure it to run normal cgi scripts with little or no change. It's supposed to do wonders. -philip On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Keith Simonsen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for suggestions on decreasing the load on a webserver that > runs many many perl scripts. > > These are the average statistics: > last pid: 22662; load averages: 148.11, 137.78, 127.95 up 0+02:31:01 > 13:49:46 > 761 processes: 140 running, 591 sleeping, 30 zombie > CPU states: 40.2% user, 0.0% nice, 58.5% system, 1.4% interrupt, 0.0% > idle > Mem: 140M Active, 196M Inact, 60M Wired, 5652K Buf, 100M Free > Swap: 494M Total, 494M Free > > FreeBSD cipher 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #1: Thu Jul 20 > 11:44:07 > > When the site gets real busy the load average climbs until the machine > locks up. I've searched list archives and not found any applicable > solution. > > Editing the poorly written scripts is not an option, neither is > setrlimit() stuff because I don't want to KILL the process. > > The only solution I can think of is modding apache's suexec module to > change the relative priority of the scripts via nice. > > Thanks in advance for any other suggestions. > > Keith > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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