From day one i've been having problems with my RAQ, from Rackshack. We bought the standard one, with 128, and we are currently waiting for them to put the other 128 in, from the upgrade offer everyone was offer.

Little Big of history......:-

On the raq we run Ultraboard 2k. I understand that this is a killer on the server, when i telnet in most of the time, we had a reasonable amount of free ram.
But problem after problem, and i demanded a new RAQ from them, which i got........ 2day.


I thought as it's a new RAQ, i'll install the updates straight off.

Now untill this the raq was idle at 0.00 0.00 0.00 and had like 35 process. and 80 megs free of ram available.



After installing the following updates :-

Webalizer Release 1.3
Chili!Soft ASP Interbase upgrade Release 3.5.2.1
CMU-SNMP Update Release 3.7.1
OpenSSH Release 2.9p1-1
Cobalt MySQL Release 3.23.37-1

The the following, already installed :-

Relational Database Server and Client tools by InterBase. Release V6.0
Cobalt MySQL Release 3.23.37-1
Cobalt OS Release 6.0
RaQ4-All-Kernel Release 1.0.1-2.216C27III
RaQ4-All-Security Release 0.0.1-8008
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-10098
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-10108
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-10125
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-2-10014
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-2-9847
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-8232
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-8532
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-8747
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-9100
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-9531
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-9648
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-9844
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.1-9878
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.2-5-9769
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.2-8762
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.2-9077
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.2-9078
RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.2-9353
RaQ4-All-System Release 1.0.1-8572
RaQ4-All-System Release 1.0.1-9259
RaQ4-All-System Release 1.0.1-9447
RaQ4-All-System Release 1.0.1-9819
RaQ4-en-OSUpdateRelease 1.0
Third Party Disaster Recovery Release 1.0.2-9198
RaQ4-en-SystemRelease 1.0.7-9229
Webalizer Release 1.3
Chili!Soft ASP Interbase upgrade Release 3.5.2.1
CMU-SNMP Update Release 3.7.1
OpenSSH Release 2.9p1-1


After installing the updates, i found the my free ram fell through the roof.

Here is a top screen :-


5:55pm up 1:08, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
36 processes: 35 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle
Mem: 127860K av, 110696K used, 17164K free, 88008K shrd, 52548K buff
Swap: 131532K av, 48K used, 131484K free 22112K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
456 httpd 0 0 7728 7728 6528 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
1644 httpd 0 0 7728 7728 6528 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
457 httpd 0 0 7724 7724 6528 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
459 httpd 0 0 7724 7724 6528 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
460 httpd 0 0 7724 7724 6524 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
572 httpd 0 0 7724 7724 6528 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
630 httpd 0 0 7724 7724 6528 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
458 httpd 0 0 7716 7716 6532 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
506 httpd 0 0 7716 7716 6532 S 0 0.0 6.0 0:00 httpd
397 root 0 0 7172 7172 6272 S 0 0.0 5.6 0:01 httpd
396 root 0 0 6352 6352 5060 S 0 0.0 4.9 0:01 httpd
566 root 0 0 6348 6348 5072 S 0 0.0 4.9 0:00 httpd
655 root 0 0 6252 6252 5020 S 0 0.0 4.8 0:00 httpd
374 root 0 0 5756 5756 4752 S 0 0.0 4.5 0:01 httpd
503 mysql 0 0 1360 1360 972 S 0 0.0 1.0 0:00 mysqld
507 mysql 0 0 1360 1360 972 S 0 0.0 1.0 0:00 mysqld
508 mysql 0 0 1360 1360 972 S 0 0.0 1.0 0:00 mysqld


I was finding that the free ram was falling as low as 6 megs.

Now the server is inactive ... there isn't anything upload, for people to access ... and no mysql tables created or being accessed. and no Ultradboard running either ... nuttin, the server is blank.



Now what am i doing wrong ?

What should i expect from a server have is inactive and updated ?

Is there an order you need to install the updates....??


Any help on this should really be appricated. Am sick to the back teeth over this RAQ, and it's never follows any kind of pattern, inorder for me to pin point the actual thing causing the problem.

If i had the raq next to me, i'd smash it up !..... am really strested over it ...

If anyone has any tips, info, anything that would be of help to me ... please help ! I walk through, in how to set up the perfect running RAq wouldn't go a miss.

Has anyone experiance this kind of problem ?

Sorry about the long post, but the post is like the amount of problems i am having...

Rackshack are a good help....... only when it suits them.

If i dont get this sorted, am going to put myself in a early grave !!!....... or rackshack.

Thanks in advance......


Regards
Vinney

Breath in then out -- in then out.... now that your calm.


From your top output, I can see that there is no load on the server -- thats great. You have all of your httpd, mysqld, and other daemons up and working properly. So why get so upset????

Now for RAM. Many people make a mistake about RAM usage under linux. Most people are used to Mircrosoft-based OS's where the machine does not use RAM as effectively. The top command is misleading to many new users because the memory used line includes buffers and caches.

Use the 'free' command to get a better picture of whats going on on your machine.

For more info on RAM usuage, please see my other post
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15129

It has a lot more info for you.

Hmm odd odd,

if you like, I could have a look at it and see if I could fix it for you

contact me on herps@ewsnl.com

[
admin admin]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127860 115552 12308 155460 38872 22532
-/+ buffers/cache: 54148 73712
Swap: 131532 48 131484

Here is what i get now when i type the Free command

And here the top to match


10:13am up 17:26, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
46 processes: 45 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.2% idle
Mem: 127860K av, 115840K used, 12020K free, 155784K shrd, 38876K buff
Swap: 131532K av, 48K used, 131484K free 22692K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
28634 httpd 0 0 7924 7924 6724 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28073 httpd 0 0 7920 7920 6724 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:01 httpd
28072 httpd 0 0 7908 7908 6684 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28109 httpd 0 0 7908 7908 6716 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
29006 httpd 0 0 7908 7908 6700 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
30461 httpd 0 0 7904 7904 6728 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28071 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28074 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28075 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6692 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28110 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:01 httpd
30462 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
30465 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6692 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
30466 httpd 0 0 7900 7900 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
28091 httpd 0 0 7896 7896 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:01 httpd
29005 httpd 0 0 7896 7896 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
30463 httpd 1 0 7896 7896 6724 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd
30464 httpd 0 0 7896 7896 6720 S 0 0.0 6.1 0:00 httpd


This give any clues or answers ?