On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:55:44PM +0100, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:

Bryce Harrington wrote:

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:40:23PM +0100, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:

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Is it just me or do other people also experience rediculous load times for the Inkscape site? (homepage and Wiki main page, I didn't dare go any further) With rediculous I mean something like a minute, or even several minutes.

I noticed there were problems yesterday and restarted apache. Looking at it now, I see an error:

[Sun Dec 10 05:59:12 2006] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

I went ahead and raised the MaxClients settings in the config by a factor of about 4 and restarted. Seems to be ok now.

Please keep an eye on the site and report here if it again becomes a problem; getting things properly tuned could take a few iterations.

It seems to be having the same problem again.

Thanks. Next let's try upgrading apache. I notice some issues with non-exiting child processes, which seems weird and is probably what's resulting in the slowness. Should take a couple hours; I'll let you know when the upgrade is complete.

Bryce

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:26:44PM -0800, John Bintz wrote:

Bryce Harrington said:

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Thanks. Next let's try upgrading apache. I notice some issues with non-exiting child processes, which seems weird and is probably what's resulting in the slowness. Should take a couple hours; I'll let you know when the upgrade is complete.

I don't know much about the config for the Inkscape server, but are you using Alternative PHP Cache along with PHP 5.1.4? I've managed to kill APC on really busy servers in such a way that the child processes never exit, eventually using up all of the MaxServers.

I don't think we're using that cache (how would you tell?), but we do have php 5.1.4 installed. I'll try upgrading it to 5.1.8.

Thanks, Bryce