In the words of the great Scotty (not that I am a Star Trek fan or anything), “she’s breaking up Captain!” (why did they build their ships so unreliably they couldn’t cope with the every day stresses of going where no one had gone before?). Here’s what my long suffering admin has to say about my some people are getting a timeout trying to read this site:
Gee what's wrong with this picture? daedalus:~# ps ax | grep blos 27845 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27851 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27854 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27855 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27856 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27859 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27860 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27862 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27870 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27874 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27875 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27876 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27878 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27888 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27890 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27892 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27893 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27902 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27903 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27905 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27907 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27910 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27916 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27930 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27944 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27946 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep blos 27947 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom 27952 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /srv/stillhq.com/www/cgi-bin/blosxom Methinks your website is too popular for something that spawns a Perl process per visitor.
It doesn’t help that there is no something like five major search engines crawling here a lot — as opposed to the two I had a couple of years ago. That’s right. It’s MSN’s fault.
Anyways, I guess the next step is to try modperl, and perhaps prayer. Got any other suggestions? Drop me a line.
[tags: perlatmywebsite perl blosxom linux]