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  3. June 2009

Overwhelming a Web Application Server


At the stroke of midnight, one of our state universities opens their course registration system to the Internet, and within a matter of minutes the entire system slows to a snail's pace as eager students flood servers with course registration queries & requests for fall classes.

The problem with an overwhelmed system is that nobody gets anything done under the burden of resource contention. Is anyone dealing with problems like this? What stragegies work? Restricting Apache ThreadsPerChild? Reducing the KeepAliveTimeout? Configuring session limits?

Nathan.





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