From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 20:18:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364E716A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:18:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njt@ayvali.org) Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [204.89.131.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A245E43D60 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:18:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njt@ayvali.org) Received: (qmail 30985 invoked by uid 1003); 1 Dec 2005 20:18:15 -0000 Received: from clam.int.geekisp.com (HELO clam.geekisp.com) (192.168.4.38) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Dec 2005 20:18:15 -0000 Received: from clam.geekisp.com (njt@localhost.geekisp.com [127.0.0.1]) by clam.geekisp.com (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jB1KIEEO031013 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:18:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from njt@localhost) by clam.geekisp.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id jB1KIEwN015255 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:18:14 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: clam.geekisp.com: njt set sender to njt@ayvali.org using -f Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 15:18:14 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051201201814.GA8773@ayvali.org> References: <20051201193813.GG15171@ayvali.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051201193813.GG15171@ayvali.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:18:26 -0000 * N.J. Thomas [2005-12-01 14:38:13 -0500]: > We have a website with moderately high traffic, load balanced among 3 > webservers. > > During peak traffic times however (when the volume is higher than > normal), the load shoots up to over a 100, and the site crawls to its > knees. I forgot to mention that the webservers are running FreeBSD 4.11 and Apache 1.3.x. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo