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opentracker.i2p.rocks june 2023 temporary outage

On June 1 2023 while applying some slight tuning of tcp sysfs parameters opentracker.i2p.rocks experienced a cascading failure caused by nginx dog piling and spiking the load average of the box well over 100 from excessive cpu usage from tls overhead. ernesto from torrentfreak seemed to have noticed …

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musings on tuning nginx for production.

The nginx default settings are a stroke of accedental or maybe intentional genius. They are so under powered that it is actually amazing they worked for me for as long as I had them. I assume it is this way so that it forces admins to actually pay attention and …

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