Re: FN-FORUM: Help! Apache server being hammered and site keeps falling over!

date posted 1st November 2007 01:52

On Thursday 01 November 2007 00:53:54 Ben Nolan wrote:
> The server has 4GB of RAM and two reasonably meaty processors. This
> shouldn't really be happening at all.

This sort of spec should be able to cope with a great deal of traffic.

> We're looking in to putting the MySQL server on a separate machine, as
> well as possibly load-balancing the website itself with another box.

And this I suspect will not fix the *real* problem.

> This takes time and money, though; this is more about quick speed
> fixes, something which the config posted previously seems to have
> helped with.

If I understood those config changes correctly (didn't look too closely)
they were just allowing more clients to connect and wait for whatever
it is waiting for.

> I'm guessing there's a fairly major memory leak somewhere in the
> software, but I'm not sure where it is.

Something in the script, I reckon, but not a memory leak.
Are you connecting to third party servers at all?