From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 12 20:53:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04016 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04009 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA06000 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:51:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:51:35 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: URGENT: resource allocation to web server Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My webserver is getting hit heavily right now, and is failing to fork critical CGI and sendmail processes. How do I increase it's resource allocation? Load is sitting at around 0.5, CPU utilisation under 10%, not using it's swap space at all. The webserver's user has about 20 or so processes, with mail processes forking off for perhaps another 20. I don't want these to fail. I imagine the resource crunch is probably happening on file handles? How do I set this and make ittake effect with minimal interruption of the server. I need to sort this out quickly, but if I don't then the current peak will probably last at least a week or two. (It's related to a crisis in government and consequent material on my site). In 6 months this will probably be an average daily load. I'm sure this is a RTFM thing, but which one(s)? Any pointers much appreciated Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message