[pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

[Stirling Westrup]

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pmwiki at 911networks.com wrote:
>> So, what's the best way to prepare PmWiki for a possible
>> slashdotting? Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> * Tune up your apache by removing all unnecessary modules.
> * How much rewriting are you doing, and apache processing such as
> xyz.com vs www.xyz.com, htaccess, bots,...
> * Reduce, if you can, the logging.
> * Tune up your PHP, by allocation as much memory as possible.
> * Use eaccelarator or equivalent and can you allocate 128Mb for it?
> * In PmWiki, do not use pagelists or dynamically created pages.
> 
> This is a start.
> 
Good, I've already done a bunch of these. I don't do any rewriting (well, not
mod_rewite anyway. I do use aliases to get clean URLs).

I don't think I can reduce the logging further without completely turning it
off, and I will need some indicator of traffic.

I'm already (IIRC) using a PHP accelerator, but I admit I have no idea how
much RAM is devoted to either it or PHP. I guess I should look into that.

Oh, and the advice about avoiding pagelists is good. The bit about dynamically
created pages is confusing though. Aren't all PmWiki pages dynamically created?

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