Re: Site way slow, please check

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>
>>>> Please check on what could be slamming the servers.   Thanks!
>>>
>>> Yup, I'm seeing that as well - judging by a quick ps, it
>> *looks* like
>>> it's bittorrent that's killing it, along with a fair few
>> hits on the
>>> ftp server. Unfortunately there's not much I can do as it's
>> in a VM,
>>> and things like top don't work from there so I can't check properly.
>>>
>>> Going on IRC to chat about it I'm told you just went to
>> sleep.... I'll
>>> do what I can, but I know nothing about BT :-(
>>
>> For what it's worth (and I'm on the digest list so someone
>> may have already brought this up), bittorrent is fairly
>> resource intensive and perhaps it doesn't need to be run on
>> this particular server.  I setup bt seeds for all the
>> torrents on a box I had last night with a 10 megabit line,
>> and I'll do the same with my other production box today.  As
>> long as there's at least one torrent seed going out there, I
>> don't think the webserver should be seeding torrents.
>
> There have been several other machines seeding. Only the trackers are on
> that box. I think. At least there were plenty of other seeders available
> on different networks.

As far as I know, this is the case ... I've been watching that server all
day, and all appears to be running smoothly ...

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