[BNM] Apache / Apache 2 / FastCGI / Lighttpd advice

[Tom Hume]

On 4 Dec 2006, at 14:21, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:

>> What does "crashing" actually mean?  Apache dieing? some bits not
>> responding?
> Kernel death and/or whole networking stack :-/
> Sometimes the box reboots othertimes I have to use my remote re-boot
> capability as I can't ssh in. :P

Wow. That sounds seriously screwy to me; I've seen Apache/FCGI  
processes fall over and dump core thanks to library mismatches etc,  
but bringing down the whole box? I'd look at hardware and check the  
memory in the machine as a first step. There's no way user-level  
processes should be doing that sort of thing.

 From my (limited) experience lighttpd is ace: we benchmarked it  
comfortably handling ludicrous loads (2000 req/second) on a small LVS  
cluster of 1 load balancer and 2 years-old compaq boxes with about  
128mb ram.


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