Surviving Digg?

[Neil Sheth]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx at none.at> wrote:
> 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
60

>  sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle
0

Are these unreasonable?  Thanks!