RE: [cobalt-users] Raq 4 going unresponsive

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 4 going unresponsive


On 7/24/03 7:54 AM, "Phil Beynon" wrote:

>> I have a Raq 4 server with 256 meg of ram.  I just recently put a site on
>> it that pulls an average of about 75 gig a month.
>>
>> the server keeps locking up totally.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea's on this ?
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> It depends on the nature of the site - I had one hosted site that was
eating
> bandwidth, until I showed him how to nicely optimise images - that made a
> radical difference to useage / server loads.

>Image size would effect server load? This must be a general server issue
and
>not specific to a Raq, correct??
>--
>Thanks!!
>David Thurman
>List Only at Web Presence Group Net

It's got to pick it up off disk, into memory and pipe it down the wire - its
just as much a server load as any other activity the cpu has to perform.
If the images are badly optimised and way bigger than they need to on a busy
site then yes it can have a marked effect.

Phil



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