But then, remember that these values should be adjusted according to your server/machine/traffic... 

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html#MaxSpareServers

And "If you are trying to set the value equal to or lower than MinSpareServers, Apache will automatically adjust it to MinSpareServers + 1."

That's if you're using prefork on your server :-)

Seb

On 15.12.2014 16:23, Gooding R.W. wrote:

Thanks Ian.  
RG

-----Original Message-----
From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ian Stuart
Sent: 15 December 2014 15:43
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.ukSubject: [EP-tech] Re: load throttling strategy

I confess I just throttled the server: in httpd.conf add

StartServers    2
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 1
MaxClients    128

(I put mine right next to where I defined the user & group for the server)

On 15/12/14 15:35, Ian Stuart wrote:

I bet he's suffering the problem I had: Google loads a 'view' page, which has hit it's "out of date" time so rebuilds. In the mean time, another httpd catches the next google page load, which has also hit its "out of date" time, so spawns ANOTHER page rebuild. It very quickly ramps up, and WILL swamp the server... and WILL crash the server. On 15/12/14 15:21, sf2 wrote:

Which issue are you trying to solve by introducing such a delay? Seb On 15.12.2014 15:17, Gooding R.W. wrote:

Hi, does anyone have an easy way to throttle eprints website crawlers ? I'm wondering is something as a short delay for each ePrint accessed - the delay being proportional to the current load ? That's perhaps a little blunt but might it be very easy to implement ?

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