Stack overflow, serverfault and co will also pile on ideas..<br>To scale, it boils down to this<br>1) Cache everywhere. For example, each of the following entries is a caching/service layer (and reduces the amount of traffic to the next layer)<br>
 -  Use reverse proxies.<br> - Use dedicated servers for static media (nginx or lighttpd)<br> - Use memcached instead of hitting the db.<br> - Use as much memory in the db as you can afford<br>2) RAM in the db helps alot. Of course, this requires you to tweak your db settings, index your tables, set up a replication service where readers read from replicated slaves... etc<br>
3) Build you service to share nothing. (Are all your requests hitting the db? If so, this will eventually be your bottleneck) This will allow you to scale out.<br>4) Automate everything.... Really!<br> -&gt; Your code should be in a git/hg repo somewhere, .<br>
 -&gt; You should have a build environment  (or at least unit tests).<br> -&gt; You should deploy your application in an audit-able manner (package it into whatever archive your os uses).<br> -&gt; Use cfengine et al to help you with these tasks.<br>
5) YCFIIYCSI (You can&#39;t fix it if you can&#39;t see it). I can only show you the door: &lt;door&gt;<a href="http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html">http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html</a>&lt;/door&gt; and a window: &lt;window&gt;<a href="http://square.github.com/cubism/">http://square.github.com/cubism/</a>&lt;/window&gt; into a new world :)<br>
<br><br>See:<br><a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/272567/setting-up-a-high-speed-load-balancing-server-cluster-web-db-nfs">http://serverfault.com/questions/272567/setting-up-a-high-speed-load-balancing-server-cluster-web-db-nfs</a><br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Calvin Omari <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:calvinebarongo@gmail.com" target="_blank">calvinebarongo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
@peter Thanks so much<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Peter Karunyu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkarunyu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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@Calvin,<br><br>Once upon a time, there was a discussion on this list on how KNEC can optimize their setup for checking results, that thread contained a wealth of information on performance issues from a number of skunks, I highly recommend you dig up that thread and learn from it.<div>

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 <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, TheMburu George <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:themburu@gmail.com" target="_blank">themburu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">


<div>Some concerns here:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is it for production purposes, if so you would consider having MySQL in its own separate server, then DB is tweak and scarifice options for tables mostly on engines i.e. MYISAM &amp; INNODB choose on application and access or load.</div>



<div>To improve perfomance consider having only the necessary services running and disable the unnecessary ones (this is also for security purposes - chkconfig will assist here)</div><div>Another option would change the runlevel to 3 if defaults to 5 with GUI.</div>



<div><br></div><div>Those are some of the options off my head...</div><div><br></div><div>./TheMburu</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Calvin Omari <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:calvinebarongo@gmail.com" target="_blank">calvinebarongo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div>Hi Skunks,</div><div> </div><div>

 </div><div>How ca I optimize the performance of a Lamp server to increase it sperfromance</div>

<div> </div><div>Please if you can give in terms like </div><div>1.memory (What is the optmimum memory user and what is cirtical)</div>
<div>2.CPU Usage</div><div>3. Config files (my.conf and Appache2d,conf</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>With Kind Regards</div><div>./Cal</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,<br>




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