NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:36 AM, John Campbell <jcampbell1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to thank everyone for their help and advice.  I don't
> think it is impossible to figure out what the underlying issue is, but
> I made a bunch of changes based on the recommendations here.
>
> 1) I switched the hardware (pretty easy, since it's just a Xen instance)
> 2) I upgraded Apache and PHP
> 3) I changed max requests per child to a sensible number rather than
> unlimited.  I think log rotate would achieve a similar effect by
> restarting the webserver every day and I'll eventually go that route.
> 4) I set up monitoring scripts that will dump the output of `ps` and
> `apache2ctl fullstatus` to a log in the event the apache craps out
> again, and I'll be sure to get a gdb dump if it happens again.
> 5) For other reasons, I reduced the Keep-Alive time and moved most of
> the static content to Amazon's CDN.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Regards,
> John Campbell

Wow, good thing it crashed. It sounds like you have a much more robust rig now!