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…then it means that Apache is back to normal. On the server (I run it), we had a little bit of fun with a post ranking quite highly on Reddit. The corresponding traffic saturated Apache’s processes meaning that the whole server started to run slowly, and became apparently unresponsive.

Of course, increasing MaxClients doesn’t help if you start to be RAM/CPU limited, and it helps even less when the kernel starts sending out syncookies in light of the barrage of requests.

Anyhow, back to normal for the minute, but we need to move to a better front end… (at least sometimes) we are:

If you are a BT or Yahoo email user, then you may notice occasionally that your email takes an age to arrive. Sometimes you may even discover that an email someone sent you you has never arrived. If you experience this, here’s a bit of an explanation as to why this may be happening…

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