My host is complaining about some MT scripts, search and comment taking up too much of a load.
Top Process %CPU 60.5 /usr/bin/perl -w mt-comments.cgi
Top Process %CPU 55.0 /usr/bin/perl -w mt-search.cgi
Any suggestions about how in 5.04 I reduce this load?
Thanks.
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If you're running them with plain vanilla CGI, I'd recommend switching over to FastCGI. Don't use it on mt.cgi, but rather use it on search.cgi first and then as you get a feel for it, consider using it on comments.cgi. Post on MTOS-dev or the Melody list if you want more advice than that because that's the extent of my experience with FastCGI.
Just curious. Why not use FastCGI on mt.cgi?
I had problems with it on my host. It would quickly use up the limits on resource utilization. I think the problem was that the republishing process can use a lot of memory. I know SA went to great lengths to plug memory leaks, but I think it may have been the behavior of Perl's garbage collector. I'm just guessing about the causes. All I know is it got about 1/4 of the way through the rebuild process when it died a violent death at the hands of the host's user quotas.
If thats the case maybe SA shouldn't recommend using FastCGI in the first place. I wish they can fix this leak soon. My server some times hangs because of it.
I has same problem on search. So I use Google Customize Search instead of build-in search script.
Get more exposure on Google and save the power on my VPS.
I also have a server often hangs. Also configured FastCgi. Probably need to abandon it