Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
While I was still working for Anchor Systems, we had a client who was launching a fairly large website and as part of the gradual ramp-up to delivery we needed to perform some capacity tuning of the web/application servers. The application stack was basically Perl via mod_perl on Apache (not threaded) so we had to determine the memory footprint of the application and make a determination of how…