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[Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Falk Husemann <josen AT paketsequenz.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Am 01.07.2012 22:25, schrieb Jamyn Shanley:
>> I personally love Cherokee, and would be willing to put in time to
>> setup a duplicate copy of the existing server as a demonstration.
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> we don't have performance data, so maybe the bottle-neck is not the
> software used, but the rate of random requests to the I/O subsystem or
> something else altogether.

I agree, I don't think it's a problem with Apache itself. Plenty of
sites use it in very high volume setups without problems.
I suggested Cherokee because it has some nice handlers built in, it's
fast with standard configs, and it's easy to manage.

> I'd also be willing to help and favor using what takes the least time

Same. I'll volunteer time to help with the issue if there's interest
in trying to tune the existing config. I suggested setting up a
mirrored machine for a few reasons - one was to simplify throwing
benchmarks at a "running" config to see where the problems lie, and to
work around them. If it's mostly search engine traffic, there are a
number of ways to address that... including rate limiting search
engines specifically. The Apache mod_security module is an excellent
tool, and could easily ratelimit (only) problematic traffic. Anyway,
I'm willing to help if there's some interest from the ops team.