There were some unfortunate side-effects to being linked from MAKE: I was unable to accommodate everyone, it seems.
I have a watchdog script that throttles the httpd process (shuts it down, actually) when load hits 5 or more. It then checks until it drops below 2 before restarting. For the better part of any hour, there was no web service to be had.
Apr 3 02:50:02 red root: Watchdog running: load of 6.11, Apr 3 03:25:02 red root: Watchdog running: load of 5.38, Apr 3 03:30:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 03:30:00 red root: Watchdog running: load of 6.28, Apr 3 03:35:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 03:35:01 red root: Watchdog running: load of 7.87, Apr 3 03:40:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 03:40:00 red root: Watchdog running: load of 8.79, Apr 3 03:45:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 03:45:01 red root: Watchdog running: load of 9.55, Apr 3 03:50:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 03:50:00 red root: Watchdog running: load of 10.68, Apr 3 03:55:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 03:55:01 red root: Watchdog running: load of 10.83, Apr 3 04:00:01 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 04:00:01 red root: Watchdog running: load of 12.20, Apr 3 04:05:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 04:05:00 red root: Watchdog running: load of 19.49, Apr 3 04:10:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting Apr 3 04:10:00 red root: Watchdog running: load of 14.20, Apr 3 04:15:00 red root: Watchdog checkfile detected: exiting
Sorry about that. I may need to look into some other mitigation strategies. Money helps, but that’s not forthcoming at the moment.