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How many Requests per Minute are considered 'Heavy Load'? (Approximation)

Often times people talk in their (optimization & performance related) questions and answers about 'heavy load'. I'm trying to quantify this in the context of a regular web application on a typical server (take SO & its fairly small infrastructure…
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Redis is taking too long to respond

Experiencing very high response latency with Redis, to the point of not being able to output information when using the info command through redis-cli. This server handles requests from around 200 concurrent processes but it does not store too…
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Server and MySql load issue

I am using a code that fetch 100 items from a website and insert it into the database if the item exists it updates that record. It runs as a cron job every minute. It runs upto 50000 products. The script works good and products are imported…
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Reducing server CPU usage with AJAX calls

I am working on a multiplayer HTML5 game that makes use of jQuery to poll a server for game state. At present, I'm querying the server with a .ajax call every 2000ms, to give the impression of real-time updates. I'm really not pushing too much…
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How do you calculate server load in PHP?

How do you calculate the server load of PHP/apache? I know in vBulletin forums there's the server load displayed like 0.03 0.01 0.04 but it's not really understandable to a average joe. So I thought about a 1-100 percentile scale. I wanted to…
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Is there any way to access information about a Coldfusion server's load from within coldfusion?

I am writing a scheduled task which I would like to run frequently. The problem is that I do not want this task to be run if the server is experiencing a high traffic load. Is there any way other then getting the free/total/max memory from java to…
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Right way of watermarking & storing & displaying images in PHP

I'm building a web based system, which will host loads and loads of highres images, and they will be available for sale. Of course I will never display the highres image, instead when browsing people will only see a low resolution, watermarked…
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Would it be better to include() resources (css,js) or to let the browser do another request?

Would it be faster include a javascript file and outputting it in the html as a