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xcache to the rescue

Posted in Technology at January 29th, 2008 / No Comments »

This past two weeks have been a roller coaster ride from hell. At Smartphone Experts we’ve fallen victim to the plague of web traffic growth.

One of our servers started trashing under heavy load. Nothing worked to fix the problem.

  • We added more ram
  • Moved assets to a separate server
  • Optimized queries

Still the trashing continued.

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(roller coaster graph)

After installing xcache our graph looks like this:

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now my life is back to normal — Thanks xcache

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My new favorite album of 2008

Posted in Random at January 29th, 2008 / No Comments »

Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & GraceFoo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace 
Honestly this album does it right. It’s been quite some time that I’ve been able to put the CD in and just hit play until it stops. I highly recommend it!  

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In the beginning…

Posted in Random at January 29th, 2008 / No Comments »

So I’ve been asking myself to write a blog and I’ve finally answered myself with this blog. So you’re asking what can you expect from reading this blog? In short a little bit of everything
Topics include:

  • Sports
  • Photography
  • Computer programming (career)
    • Network administration (career)
    • MySQL
    • Ruby
    • PHP
    • Apache
  • Apple computer
  • Odd videos

Another thing you can expect while reading this blog:
I’m the worst speller around and my grammar sucks just as badsucks just as badly. As your reading my posts please ignore what you can’t correct, trust me I’ve been trying to fix these problems ever sense I zoned out in the 3rd grade. I’m using this blog to improve my grammar and spelling so sit back and try to enjoy the ride.

Thanks for visting!

Me

Chris Larson