I just found out about the StackScripts and think they're an awesome idea for starting new linodes. However, I have an existing linode LAMP stack that needs serious tuning and no matter what I do it doesn't seem to help.

My linode is a production service, I cannot start a new linode and transfer the stuff over without seriously disrupting things.

So, is there any way to find out what the StackScript commands: "mysql_tune 40", "php_tune", and "apache_tune 40" actually do? I figure if I know what they do, I can just set mysql, apache and php to those values and see if that fixes things for me.

btw, I saw those commands here: http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view ... criptID=10

For some history, my service has been running almost perfectly since upgrading to 768. I don't get much website traffic (~75 uniques a day -- GA stat) but my linode serves as an API for my product, which gets about 3000-4000 hits a day and for every hit it gets, it pushes data out. That 3000-4000 isn't really spread out over the day, there are some clients who hit the API only a few times a day, but others who hit the API 300+ times in a specific hour.

As a point of reference, this was my bandwidth usage this month:
# Incoming: 1.17 GB
# Outgoing: 1.44 GB
# Total: 2.60 GB

I just upgraded to the 1024 linode, probably overkill for what I'm doing, but I don't know what else to do. And it seems like everyone and their brother has a different opinion about what certain tuning values should be.

btw. I've also just installed Munin to see if that will help me figure out what's going on.

Awesome, thanks! Not sure how I missed that.

It's the include that's in 10