Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} LWP::UserAgent slows website

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> Now that's a new (and important!) piece of information. Your server
>> runs slow for 10 *minutes* after your script has made its request?
>>
>> To me, that indicates that important data wound up getting swapped to
>> disk on the server, and the slow behavior reported by other users is
>> the result of that data being swapped back in on-demand.
>>
>> That also indicates that your script's requests (and, possibly,
>> request pattern) cause some process in the server to allocate far more
>> memory than usual, which is why the server is swapping things to disk.

OK, thank you for the explanation.  That does make sense.

> I agree. My rule of thumb was always that I must prevent Apache swapping
> at all costs as the performance impact is horrific.
>
> It doesn't have to mean installing more RAM (which is quick, easy, cheap
> and often rather effective), sensible optimizations can work wonders
> too, as can nginx as a proxy in front of Apache.

I've been using net-mail/up-imapproxy but the initscript has issues.
Is nginx good for IMAP too?

- Grant