Re: [users@httpd] tuning question

2014-07-18 Thread David Favor
Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, Ever once in a while, a crawler comes along and starts indexing our site - and in the process pushes our server's load average through the roof. Short of blocking the crawlers, can anybody suggest some quick tuning adjustments to make, to reduce load (setting

Re: [users@httpd] tuning question

2014-07-12 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jeff Trawick wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Miles Fidelman < >> mfidel...@meetinghouse.net > wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Ever once in a while, a crawler comes along and starts indexi

Re: [users@httpd] tuning question

2014-07-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jeff Trawick wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Miles Fidelman mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: Hi Folks, Ever once in a while, a crawler comes along and starts indexing our site - and in the process pushes our server's load average through the roof. Short o

Re: [users@httpd] tuning question

2014-07-12 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Ever once in a while, a crawler comes along and starts indexing our site - > and in the process pushes our server's load average through the roof. > > Short of blocking the crawlers, can anybody suggest some quick tuning > adj

[users@httpd] tuning question

2014-07-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Ever once in a while, a crawler comes along and starts indexing our site - and in the process pushes our server's load average through the roof. Short of blocking the crawlers, can anybody suggest some quick tuning adjustments to make, to reduce load (setting the max. number of serv