Hi,

I have a brand new server with only 3 sites on it. They have a lot of visitors and every few days i have to restart the server. It gets slower and slower until it just needs a restart. then it works fine. the sites use php and mysql. does anyone know a reason for this? where i should start investigating? they actually use the message board: www.phpbb.com

it also did this before i put any firewall or anything on the server. just a clean install of linux with ensim that comes with a new server at rackshack.net. it also sends a lot of emails too.

im not a big linux guy. Im a windows guy. can someone point me in the right direction on what logs to look at or something.

.john


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What's hogging the resources? Do a 'top' and see if you're running out of memory or have runaway processes.

You probebly need to set up some tuning for mysql and apache, and use ulimit to limit the resources.