Who says images can't adversely effect a server?
00:11:32 up 1 day, 8:47, 2 users, load average: 3.35, 3.19, 2.61
139 processes: 132 sleeping, 6 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 93.2% 0.0% 5.0% 0.0% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0%
Mem: 962408k av, 936304k used, 26104k free, 0k shrd, 49812k buff
728700k active, 137540k inactive
Swap: 2096440k av, 0k used, 2096440k free 243336k cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
****8 nobody 25 0 99164 19M 5476 R 21.9 2.0 15:50 0 httpd
2468 nobody 25 0 102M 24M 5876 R 20.3 2.5 15:54 0 httpd
2469 nobody 25 0 101M 23M 5940 R 20.1 2.5 2:27 0 httpd
Now to check the PID's with Apache Status;
2468 0/328/346 W 4.33 2428 0 0.0 2.75 2.82 200.242.18.65 www.haha.com GET /bass_string_change/images/StringsStayInline.gif HTTP/1.1
****8 0/5/262 W 0.20 2440 0 0.0 0.05 2.17 200.242.18.65 www.haha.com GET /bass_string_change/images/Wraps_01.gif HTTP/1.1
2469 0/551/563 W 10.76 580 0 0.0 4.68 4.73 200.90.49.30 www.haha.com GET /bass_string_change/images/WipeFrets.gif HTTP/1.1
All these images are less than 50 kb too.
I haven't found the cause yet, we're trying out one possible solution in disabling mod_rewrite. I just thought I'd post that since it's commonly said serving up images causes little to no load on a server.
