Hi guys
This is the latest email from Digital Princeton who have been great so far:
Dunk,
We run a custom kernal FreeBSD that is made to handle a very high server load. From what I see in the logs there are 2 problems. The first is that there is some PHP recusivly calling it self and spawning new processes which don't get closed. This is what is taking up all the RAM and killing the box. The second is that there is no my.cnf for MySQL, this is something that you have to have Allen or whoever make. Its not really needed unless you like to tweak MySQL. I have other customers on 500Mhz Box's with 512 MB RAM running threads and they have 600+ users online at any given time.
As Mike said to you there is deffinatly some script killing the box, hes the PHP master and I would have Allen or INFO pop look at that.
We can add another 512MB RAM to your box, Mike also suggested that HD access times might becausing alittle bit of an issue als, but not much.
We have some SCSI servers coming in Monday and could move you to one of them if you like. They are alittle more pricy though. I would be able to cut you a deal on one of them though if you wanted to try that.
I want to have your site up and flying, but I feel right now its software more than hardware and I could put you on a DUAL XEON and it would still die.
I just had the box rebooted again, the load goes to 5.0 after less than a minute on. When I show a process list, there are 1,000 + httpd process running using .05 % CPU there is way to many processes running because they are not closing, they are taking up the CPU and never giving it back to the system so it runs out and then dies.
When you had the first page off yesterday the server ran just fine. Could you just run thr threads and not all the other stuff for a day and see how that goes. Have the index page go right to the forum.
Steve Klenert
