Server Load is way too high

rcsmith · November 17th, 2005, 09:18 PM

If I let unregistered guest view images then my Server load is very high. Example:

load averages: 2.39, 2.28, 1.93
mysql 63 0 469M 110M RUN 1 47.0H 52.83% 52.83% mysqld

Without unregged' users:

load averages: 0.45, 0.97, 1.41
mysql 2 0 460M 104M poll 0 47.1H 9.08% 9.08% mysqld

I don't know what do to. My server just gets too bogged down but I want everyone to be able to view images.

I am the #1 search on yahoo images for "girl", "big boobs"....

I do need help please.

Chuck S · November 18th, 2005, 07:33 AM

well real answer is to get a bigger server that can handle that traffic

However you could use something like this to turn people away

http://www.photopost.com/members/for...ht=server+load

rcsmith · December 7th, 2005, 12:42 PM

I don't want to turn people away. Could it be the IPcache or iponline? usually there is only about 100-130 people on the photo albums.

Chuck S · December 7th, 2005, 01:12 PM

You can turn off server intenstive stuff like who's online etc in photopost to lighten the load. Just experiment some on turning things off and see the load.

Michael P · December 7th, 2005, 01:48 PM

There is a Performance thread in the FAQ section; check it out, useful stuff for high volumne sites in there.

Steve_C · December 10th, 2005, 12:25 PM

Thanks for writing that up!

Coastie · December 10th, 2005, 11:09 PM

could also be that the guests are search engine spiders. Put up a robots.txt file to disallow them spidering the gallery

rcsmith · December 13th, 2005, 01:59 PM

i added the robots.txt last night. still high users. Mostly all the stats are turned off. Where is the FAQ?

Chuck S · December 13th, 2005, 02:32 PM

http://www.photopost.com/forum/showt...38#post1113838