I am sorry if this seems obvious, I am new to these lists but it looks like you are not leveraging cache.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:11 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > rationalwiki.org is getting hammered again. It looks like MySQL is the > busiest portion - seriously just doing a lot of work. > > Our current arrangement is: one box for MySQL, Apache, Lucene (the > latter reindexing weekly); two Squids; a load balancer. These are all > virtual machines on Linode (who we like). Apache and Squid boxes are > Ubuntu 12.04 servers. > > The *usual* thing when we get hammered is that Reddit discovers an > amusing tumbleweed article. The squids take care of this, of course. > But then something like the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate happens, we score > pretty highly in Google for skeptical material and a wide variety of > articles gets hit and MySQL has to work for a living. > > So, what's a good approach to scaling up MySQL on a VM? Add more > memory? Add more cores? (How's MySQL 5.5-ubuntu do for multicore?) We > can trivially add more Squids, and we haven't doubled up on Apache but > shirley that won't be entirely unfeasible. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- David Chamberlain http://alaskawiki.org/ <http://alaskawiki.org/index.php?title=Alaska> http://about.me/david.chamberlain Mission: To be the largest and most accurate source of information about Alaska. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
