more on bogged down server

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hallikainen [mailto:harold at hallikainen.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:53 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: more on bogged down server
> 
> 
> >
> > Gallery - is in gallery2?
> > http://gallery.menalto.com/
> >
> 
> 
> Yes, that's what I'm running, gallery2. I had been running gallery1
for
> years, but it was a pain to update several virtual domains. Gallery2
lets
> me have a single set of code that all the domains use. Some users are
> complaining about the usability of it versus gallery1, but I'm hoping
it's
> just learing curve.
> 
> I restarted httpd a few hours ago when the load had gotten up to about
15.
> It's now worked its way up to 3.58. I still see Google asking for
stuff
> out of gallery. I guess they haven't read the robots.txt yet.
> 
> lsof looks like a neat utility! Unfortunately, it's not installed on
this
> machine. I tried installing it, and it wanted libc.so.6 . I was kind
of
> hoping yum would take care of all the dependencies, but I guess not
this
> one. So... off hunting for libc.so.6!
> 
> THANKS!
> 
> Harold

Start searching the forums at gallery.menalto.com.  Gallery2 has
performance issues handling auto-generating thumbnails IIRC.  I run
Gallery2 on my website and it's performance is BAD if I don't go in and
tell it to generate the thumbnails.  I imagine the CPU on my host
providers computer was/is throttling up when I let thumbnails
auto-generate, since I don't have command line access I can't confirm.
Either way, it was a recognized problem.

Gallery 2.1 promises performance increases.  You may want to try an
upgrade.