[SAC] ProjectsVM Upgrade Problem

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/08/2012 10:14 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 02:33 AM, Martin Spott wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:08:02PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>> On 02/06/2012 01:44 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>>>> I have taken liberty to stop srorgapache, now the performance is sort of back.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps srorgapache should go to a different machine since it is slowing
>>>> down foss4g, gdal, geos, geotools, grass, grass wiki,  mapbender,  mapserver,
>>>> openlayers,  remotesensing.org, and  tilecache.
>>>> ?
>>
>>> It's quite a popular site so we can't leave it off indefinitely (It
>>> appears to be on again). I did manage to figure out how to run the site
>>> via gunicorn instead of apache [...]
>>
>> Oh, this sounds like a valuable progress !
>>
>> Thanks,
>> 	Martin.
> 
> Ok gunicorn is running on port 8092, if the test goes well I'm going to
> restrict it to localhost so only the apache can see it and proxy it.
> 
> To restart gunicorn it's just like any other service /etc/init.d/gunicorn
> 
> The config to tweak workers etc is in /etc/gunicorn.d/
> 
> I left the srorgapache turned on for now, but swapped it in the
> sr.org.conf in /etc/apache/site-available/
> To change back just adjust the comments to turn on gunicorn and turn the
> old proxy back on.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> PS: I wonder if the proxy was slowing down because it had to resolve the
> dns for every request? the new proxy uses 127.0.0.1 instead and seems to
> work (possibly faster).


I noticed the Apache graphs in munin look really odd post upgrade
http://webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org/munin/osgeo.org/projects.osgeo.org-apache_processes.html

Any theories as to why it's so different now?

Thanks,
Alex