[imp] single machine versus load balancing

[Oliver Kuhl]

Zitat von Charlie Reitsma <reitsmac at denison.edu>:

> Quoting Oliver Kuhl <okuhl at netcologne.de>:
> 
> > Zitat von Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
> >
> > > Quoting Charlie Reitsma <reitsmac at denison.edu>:
> > >
> > > > setoolkit reports the CPU is overloaded (I'll see load average over 50
> > > > sometimes). Users will experience a minute between clicks sometimes.
> The
> > > > IMAP box rarely exceeds 50%. The high load is http clients.
> > >
> > > Besides the usual tuning, consider a php accelerator.  It may help
> enough.
> > > But probably you do need a faster box if you want real fast access times
> > > during peak hours.
> > The accelerator is very important. I have good experiences with the
> ionCube:
> > http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/
> >
> All the information I have received on this topic has been very helpful. Has
> there been any discussion on which pages should not be cached by the
> accelerator?
I don't know. I cache every page and had no problems with it so far.

Gruss,
   Ollie.