high-load

Free resources while waiting for remote gate in (PHP, Apache, Nginx)

Hi, My php script waits for remote gate response, normally for ~20 seconds. It causes apache httpd threads to live in memory with opened MySQL connection and finally to exceed MaxClients value. How it can be managed to free idle resources until remote gate reponse. One solution is: 1) run remote gate request and then redirect user to ...

Finally, is it really advantageously to use parallel computing in high-loaded projects?

When I was writing my first server application (independent - with listening port and etc.), I found many examples of parallel-working server apps and perceived it (parallel computing) as a new capacity technology, designed for new time. Now, I found many high load-oriented apps in which specifications their developers paid attentions t...

WorkManager and a high workload

I'm working on an application which interacts with hundreds of devices across a network. The type of work being committed requires a lot of the concurrent threads (mostly because each of them requires network interaction and does so separately, but for other reasons as well). At the moment, we're in the area of requiring about 20-30 thre...

What regular maintenance tasks should you complete on a Sitecore server?

For a high-traffic Sitecore site, what kinds of regular maintenance tasks should be completed? Currently we: Analyze the Sitecore, IIS and System logs for errors Examine the response times within the IIS logs for capacity issues What other tasks should be complete regularly (monthly) to ensure that Sitecore is functioning well and t...

best way to prepare for digg effect

I have a web site which will be featured in a place which will send a large peak of one-time traffic in a couple of weeks. The server hosting the website also hosts the control panel my customers use. The website part is simple and mostly static. But it includes a wordpress blog. My question How and where can I put or cache the websi...

Intermittent MySQL error under high load: "Unknown MySQL server host 'XXXX'"

Hi, I have a MySQL server under heavy load (~960 queries per second) with ~ 400 clients continuously running queries against it. It is on a powerful machine (8 cores, Xeon, 3.3 GHz) and it looks like it can keep up with the load, no problem. Occasionally (once per week), all client processes will error at the same time with the message...