[wirelesstoronto-discuss] tech help needed!

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Gabe Sawhney <gabe at pwd.ca>:

> We need some help from someone with Linux performance tuning experience.
> Our auth server in the past few months has been getting really slow... we
> haven't been asking it to do any more work, but while before the load
> average sat around 1.1, now it's almost always between 6 and 12(!).
>
> Basically we're talking about Apache, PHP5 and Postgresql.  There's also
> MySQL and Mailman running on the box, but I doubt those have anything to do
> with it.
>
> If you've done stuff like this before, please get in touch!


make sure postgres is configured to autovacuum tables.

if you don't have it, install pgadmin on your own desktop (windows)  
and connect to the pg db as the postgres user, then you can fine tune  
whatever you need on there.

also look for any log files that have just gotten massive, and clean them out.

if its not been rebooted in a while (like months), also do that which  
will force a check of the drives in case anything is haywire there.


also - btw, the listserver for this mailing list is broken, messages  
are addressed to the list rather than the person when they arrive so  
replying if you have multiple email accounts is broken.


>
> Gabe
>





Jon Pounder