[Gllug] Underpowered box & apache 2

[Ian Norton]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:39:19PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I am (re)building a server to run an apache/perl/mysql/sendmail combo -
> previously this was all based on a 1.x version of apache and although
> the box was underpowered - just 64MB ram though a Pentium II processor -
> it performed fine under the very light loads generated.
> 
> Now everything is very slow if it involves perl and ludicrously slow if
> it involves sendmail - users hit a button and wait 40 seconds for the
> next page to appear.
> 
> The maillog indicates big delays (30 seconds) in processing each message
> - xdelay of 20 seconds plus.
> 
> Is this unavoidable or is there something else I can adjust - basically
> the server was upgraded from Red Hat 7.3 to Fedora Core 3

This sounds like sendmail and apache are trying to do dns lookups for some stuff and
timing out. you can turn it off in the apache conf file.

as for sendmail, use exim :-)

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Ian Norton-Badrul

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