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  1. #1
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    Old Server Fine - New Server Overload! Good tweaks?

    Hi, I've lurked these forums for a while and finally decided to post...Anyway, hopefully you guys can help, I really need it! I've got a web page that gets about 100,000 requests per day (that is total requests, not hits). I was on a friend's server (it used Plesk), but I decided to move to my own server since I was taking up so much of his resources and bandwidth. My friend's server had a half gig of RAM.

    My new server has a full gig of RAM. It started out with Ensim on it, but I took it off (by deleting all the Ensim rpm's). So it is now Red Hat 7.1 with my own custom installation of Apache (with mod_php) and MySQL. This server is DYING, and it has more processing power, which means it must be my config. The RAM is being eaten up badly, and I can't figure out why. What are some good server tweaks I can do to Apache and MySQL to make them less hurtful on the RAM?

    Here is what I've got on Apache (not ALL default, some of my own settings):
    Timeout 120
    MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
    KeepAliveTimeout 10
    MinSpareServers 10
    MaxSpareServers 20
    StartServers 5
    MaxClients 200
    MaxRequestsPerChild 100
    ThreadsPerChild 100

    And MySQL (taken from my-medium.cnf - again, with a few of my own settings)
    key_buffer=16M
    max_allowed_packet=1M
    table_cache=64
    sort_buffer=512K
    net_buffer_length=8K
    myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
    max_connections=300
    interactive_timeout=180
    wait_timeout=180

    Any help at all would be great! Please help me config it properly! Thanks a lot.
    Last edited by ccole; 06-07-2002 at 04:29 PM.

  2. #2
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    Can't really comment on the settings, but was it running ok when it had Ensim on it? Removing Ensim is supposed to be par with finding the Holy Grale, so I hope you got all of it and didn't cause any damage there. Probably would have been a far better idea to have the disk formatted and start clean.

  3. #3
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    I asked them to do that, but they wouldn't. So I read a few tutorials and some posts on this website and did it myself. It seemed to work out all right, I really don't think that's my problem.

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  5. #5
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    Personally, if your dedicated company refused to format the system and put a fresh OS on, I would move elseware. If they expect a small fee that would be reasonable, however.

    Good luck,

  6. #6
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    ccole, please try to set the KeepAliveTimeout to 0. This would significantly help reducing zombie processes in a server with high traffics.

  7. #7
    Try this in your cnf file. This is what I use on:

    1.7 Mhz
    1 GB Ram

    etc

    [mysqld]
    port = 3306
    socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    skip-locking
    set-variable = max_connections=400
    set-variable = key_buffer=16M
    set-variable = table_cache=1024
    set-variable = sort_buffer=4M
    set-variable = join_buffer=3M
    set-variable = record_buffer=3M
    set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
    set-variable = thread_cache=512
    set-variable = wait_timeout=3600
    set-variable = connect_timeout=10
    set-variable = thread_concurrency=2

    [mysql]
    no-auto-rehash

    [mysqldump]
    quick
    set-variable = max_allowed_packet=128M


    [safe_mysqld]
    open-files-limit=8192

    [isamchk]
    set-variable = key_buffer=128M
    set-variable = sort_buffer=128M
    set-variable = read_buffer=2M
    set-variable = write_buffer=2M

    [myisamchk]
    set-variable = key_buffer=128M
    set-variable = sort_buffer=128M
    set-variable = read_buffer=16M
    set-variable = write_buffer=16M

    [mysqlhotcopy]
    interactive-timeout

    regards,

    Brian

  8. #8
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    I suggest you snip your apache down to Apache/1.3.xx PHP/4.x.x (Which means get rid of all modules but php)

  9. #9
    Originally posted by Deahost
    Try this in your cnf file. This is what I use on:

    1.7 Mhz
    1 GB Ram

    etc
    ...
    I'm amazed that you can even run a webserver on a 1.7 MHz processor . But I guess the 1 GB of RAM does help

  10. #10
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    are you sure you are really lacking RAM? The only sure way I know of knowing this is when your swap space is starting to be used.

    Linux uses much of the free extra RAM for caching.

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