more on bogged down server

[Waldher, Travis R]

> 
> 
> strace sounds interesting. I'll have to read up on it. Meanwhile, is
there
> some way to take a pid out of top and see what url(s) httpd is working
on?
> 
> Prior to making the trip to Arkansas when this problem first appeared,
I
> DID do an update to gallery, the photo gallery program. Looking at
httpd
> logs, I see search engines calling the slideshow, which is pretty
> processor intensive. So, I've added gallery to my disallow list in
> robots.txt . Also, looking through gallery config last night, I found
> there's an option that improves cpu usage by about 90% by only
updating
> dynamic pages every 15 minutes instead of recreating them on the fly.
I'll
> see how these two changes help.

Gallery - is in gallery2?
http://gallery.menalto.com/