[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article 9304e7$arq$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca ------ From gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows:

Network Load Tuning on a UNIX Server

You've just set up a publicly accessible FTP and/or Web server on a UNIX box, and now have a hot commodity that people on the 'Net will want to access. How do you keep the load from killing your poor little server? Are you ready for the "Slashdot Effect" (or the "Red Hat Effect" in our case)?

This month, Gilbert Detillieux will take you through some of the load and usage monitoring utilities that are available for UNIX, such as MRTG, and The Webalizer, as well as some of the parameters that can be used in various server programs to limit access and throughput. The focus will be on settable parameters in WU-FTPD, including a couple useful patches, to fix the throughput feature, and to implement a host-limit feature. Time permitting, we will also include a quick look at Apache, rsync, and the Linux kernel traffic shaper utility, shapecfg, and Class Based Queuing (CBQ).

The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend.

Please note our meeting location: IBM Canada's offices in the TD Centre, at the corner of Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on the main floor - please try to be there by about 7:15 PM. Steve Moffat will then take us up to the meeting room just before the meeting starts at 7:30. Don't be late, or you may not get in.

Parking is available either in the parkade behind the TD building, off Albert Street, or in the ground level lot just north of the TD building. Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for the evening. You purchase your ticket from a dispenser, so make sure you've got exact change - a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters.

For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server:

http://www.muug.mb.ca/