Will Gant's questions

We have a group of four web apps (C#, ASP.NET, NHibernate) and a few services that used to share a Northscale instance. We've since upgraded to Membase, at which point we were actually able to start making effective use of the NHibernate second level cache. However, once we got the apps into production, the memcache service stopped listening to telnet on port 11211 and the management interface showed that it was using 9.99k connections. Judging by the traffic slamming into our database, we believe that one or more of the following steps should occur. In both cases, the server was located on a Windows 2008 server.

1) We should allow more connections to the server. This is allegedly done by calling the executable with the -c parameter. In practice, on our machine, we get an error indicating that it can't load default_engine.so when we attempt this. 2) We should decrease the pool size that our apps are using. Currently, the main web app (which has many instances that run for different clients), has a pool sized between 10 and 100 connections. 3) We need to consider whether it was an issue of network saturation. According to the management console, we had more than enough RAM. Is it possible that all the traffic overwhelmed some of the hardware at Rackspace?

Is there any other obvious source of problems that we could have overlooked?

I have three windows boxes that are connected to a linux box on my network in various ways (one's local to the network, one is a laptop and may or may not be local, and the other is my work desktop). I'm currently making use of git to syncronize most of my stuff between the boxes (using the Linux box as the server) and it works like a champ.

Now, however, I'd also like to add my MP3 collection (12 gigs) to be efficiently synchronized between boxes. I initially thought I could use git for this, but it looks like rsync would be a better choice since I don't really need all the historical stuff. Since all my existing management scripts run under git bash (instead of cygwin), I'd like to be able to use it from git bash (MINGW32 is what it says in the title bar of the window). Can I just download it in Cygwin and copy it over or is there a better way to approach it? The Linux box is running the latest version of Ubuntu Server edition - do I need to do anything to it to enable rsync to work correctly on it?

I realize I'm probably doing this in a slightly harder way than is needed, but I'm also kind of using this as an exercise in improving my commandline skills. Any suggestions?

I can use rsync from my cygwin shell, but not from msysgit. I tried copying rsync.exe from cygwin's bin folder over to msysgit's bin folder, but it still isn't finding it. Is there some other step I need to do to install it there? It's strange that I'm getting an error that it can't find the file, instead of giving me an error that one of the file's dependencies is missing.