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From stochasticgeometry.ie<\/a><\/p>\n

So you wrote a blog post about something that seemed fairly innocuous, but for whatever reason, it caught the attention of one of the major sites and now your server load is at 110 and climbing, the ssh command line session is taking thirty seconds to respond to anything at all, and given that your post is on the front page of slashdot at primetime, this doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s a temporary blip. What do you do?<\/p>\n

Okay, first things first. You don\u2019t have time to do a proper fine-tuning session. You need a quick & dirty tuneup here. Proper fine tuning you leave till after the traffic spike, and you can then come back at it with a plan and decent tools like siege and so on \u2013 but this is the \u201cfix it in three minutes\u201d version. So if you see stuff here that looks crude to you, despair not, everything looks crude when you\u2019re trying to do it in that kind of timeframe.<\/p>\n

Rest Here…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From stochasticgeometry.ie So you wrote a blog post about something that seemed fairly innocuous, but for whatever reason, it caught the attention of one of the major sites and now your server load is at 110 and climbing, the ssh command line session is taking thirty seconds to respond to anything at all, and given… <\/p>\n

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