Apache in OS X Server has a feature1 called the web performance cache which is the bane of my existence. It has limited use (mostly for large volume static sites) but it is enabled by default for every new site you create, and enabling it for just one site can effect the behavior of every [...]
One step forward…
Feb 3, ’06
2:20 PM
As I mentioned here, we upgraded our mail server to Tiger. All looked good, until we started to see this in our logs: Potential VM growth in DirectoryService since client PID: 0, has 550 open references when the warning limit is 500. According to posts in Apple’s OS X Server forum (here, here, and the [...]
OS X Cyrus DB corruption fix?
Jan 29, ’06
11:48 AM
We’ve been battling Cyrus database corruption on OS X Panther for longer than I care to admit. We don’t have an exceptional number of users (something a little north of 500) but some of their mailboxes are quite larger (ie: greater than 2GB). Just restarting the Panther mail services can take over an hour to [...]