[Systems] Apache is hogging the CPU on solarsail

[Bernie Innocenti]

On 06/25/09 11:53, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On 06/25/09 11:44, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>  5686 www-data  20   0  313m  50m  22m R  103  0.2   0:56.39 apache2
>>  9877 www-data  20   0  313m  49m  21m R  103  0.2   0:15.48 apache2
>>  2009 www-data  20   0  313m  53m  25m R  100  0.2   1:22.23 apache2
>>  2442 www-data  20   0  314m  72m  43m R   96  0.2   1:28.54 apache2
>>  5472 www-data  20   0  314m  53m  23m R   96  0.2   0:31.36 apache2
>>  5675 www-data  20   0  313m  58m  30m R   96  0.2   0:49.86 apache2
>>  5681 www-data  20   0  308m  44m  22m R   96  0.1   0:01.06 apache2
>>  9845 www-data  20   0  314m  50m  21m R   96  0.2   0:23.26 apache2
>>  9876 www-data  20   0  312m  49m  21m R   96  0.2   0:15.46 apache2
>> 10271 www-data  20   0  308m  45m  21m R   96  0.1   0:01.10 apache2
>>
>> I'm investigating
> 
> This is no bug: we're really being hit by several connections per
> second.  The load comes from the wiki.
> 
> One of the main referrers is:
>   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm

What could we do to speed up the wiki a bit more?  mod_cache?
memcached?  We're already using APC, right?

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