I’ve just finished some intensive tweaking of the Cold Ray Hosting servers. I was able to reduce the memory used by Apache, our web daemon, and MySQL, our database daemon. By reducing the memory used by each daemon, I was able to release memory to other active processes.
The immediate benefit of my tweaks is a more responsive server, as evidenced by the faster loading of this blog. Furthermore, I’m confident that the optimizations will result in greater server stability and uptime.
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What’s a daemon?
I was just about to poke you to update about your sever too. XD then I thught I should check before I bug you… and tada! :O
A daemon is basically a server process that runs in the background and handles requests. You can read more here.
As a side note, the fact that daemon is spelled similarly to “demon” is probably why FreeBSD has a red devil as their mascot.
Stupid WordPress! It put my response to your comment in moderation. This is especially troubling considering that I was logged in at the time I made the post. Ironically, I had to moderate my own comment.
I shall submit this to their Bugzilla (or eqv) if I find some spare time…
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