Surviving Digg?

[Aleksandar Lazic]

On Die 29.04.2008 16:01, Neil Sheth wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx at none.at> wrote:
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>>
>>  On Die 29.04.2008 13:38, Neil Sheth wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > We hit the front page of digg the other night, and our servers didn't
>> > handle it well at all.  Here's a little of what happened, and perhaps
>> > someone has some suggestions on what to tweak!
>> >
>> > Basic setup, nginx 0.5.35, serving up static image content, and then
>> > passing php requests to 2 backend servers running apache, all running
>> > red hat el4.
>> >
>>
>>  What was/is the network settings on the maschines?
>
>What specific settings are you asking about?

sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout
sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle