I have one client using dedicate server. He has an online stories web site. People go there to read stories. He has about 6000 stories.

The server load in the "10.50" range with 67% memory usage. It is 17.73 as i type now.

Is there a way to lower his server load? and is any one know what other application beside phpnuke, postnuke that can handle his online stories thing?

:confused:

WOW , what an earth is he doing to use that load all the time.
Are you sure he doesnt have an out of control script or something?

try running "top" and seeing if something is using up all the cpu.

So he uses a lot of php? php accelerator worked well for me

http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/ (easy install without touching the running php applications)

Also, there is smarty which can/is recommended to be installed along with php-ac, for even better performance (serving php like static pages), but I haven't tried that yet.

http://smarty.php.net/ (requires some new organization of running php apps if they shall use smarty)

Also, if he is running apache, turning logging off should help quite a bit too (uncomment the lines in httpd.conf where it specifies where to put the log files)


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But maybe there is another problem, a worm that uses the resources for dos attacks, something link that.

shutting the server down has always worked well for us. in a turned off state the server load is usually 0.00

whats his server configuration and how much data transfer per month?

he has a P3 1.2 with 512 MB of ram. The bandwidth is VERY little. Less than 40 gigs a month but just the resource this database suck out.

:rolleyes:

Did you check your server logs what is causing the problem?... /var/log most probably you have a bad kernel and need a fresh install due to erratic cpu processes running hay-wire and causing the load to be very high.

Check the "messages" log the busiest,(boot time,shutdown, DNS errors, daemons-starting/stopping etc.etc.) If you are not sure, copy the file and send it to your Host to rectify the problem.

Originally posted by rusko
shutting the server down has always worked well for us. in a turned off state the server load is usually 0.00

LMAO :D