Posted by geofftech on October 3, 2011 at 5:16am
I have been running a Barracuda install at RackSpcaceCloud now for several months. And at first, everything was amazingly fast. Even as far as to say "head turning" in its speed.
I have moved a few more domains over now and it has been running for a while and things seem to be slowing down.
So much so that I have been getting as much as 30 seconds for the first bit to arrive after a request. The page seems to load fairly fast after that point.
Could this be a caching issue?
What can I do to determine where there problem is actually occurring?
Some of the domains on the server for testing are
http:\metrosolar.com.au
http:\redronin.com
http:\stuartmccullough.com
Any ideas are welcome

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max_children
I had a similar problem this weekend. Increasing the max_children value in /opt/etc/php-fpm.conf seems that solved it
Thanks, I have increased the
Thanks,
I have increased the max_children value from 1 to 10 (and then rebooted)
This seems to have done the trick - speeds are much better now. Much much better - 30 seconds down to 0.5 seconds.
Thank you very much for that.
http://geoff.com.au - http://redronin.com
The question is: How the
The question is: How the max_children value became 1 for both of us.
In my case maybe that's because I tried to run upgrade using 'aptitude full-upgrade' and have run also 'bash BARRACUDA.sh.txt' recently
Yes - similarly I have used
Yes - similarly I have used 'aptitude full-upgrade' .... before I found out that I should not do it that way .... and have also updated to the latest Barracuda (8.09 -> 8.10).
So one of these where most likely the cause. Probably the 'full-upgrade' ... as there are definite instructions NOT to update other than with Barracuda itself.
http://geoff.com.au - http://redronin.com
What is the ideal best
What is the ideal best practise setting for "max_children" in php-fpm? It would be nice to here it from omega8.cc's recommendations?