I really need your help, high Memory Usage

[lexmark]

Hello, first I want to say I do not know much about maintaining a server, I am paying someone to look over my server but they are too busy to help me with this problem. My server RAM is being totally drained after an hour or so for no reason. I spoke to everyone and Ev1 Support said to ask on these forums what the problem is, since it may be a Cpanel error. I do not understand what this error means but I will paste the message in /var/log/messages:

Feb 29 04:11:02 family syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Feb 29 04:11:27 family kernel: ** IN_TCP DROP ** IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:76:51:f6:a8:
00:e0:52:08:35:fc:08:00 SRC=66.98.54.196 DST=66.98.188.207 LEN=40 TOS=0x04 PREC=0x00
TTL=113 ID=59026 PROTO=TCP SPT=1025 DPT=1013 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0
Feb 29 04:14:12 family pure-ftpd[14852]: (?@127.0.0.1) [INFO] New connection from 12
7.0.0.1
Feb 29 04:14:12 family pure-ftpd[14852]: (?@127.0.0.1) [INFO] Logout - CPU time spen
t: 0.000 seconds.
Feb 29 04:14:12 family kernel: application bug: whostmgrd(14859) has SIGCHLD set to
SIG_IGN but calls wait().
Feb 29 04:14:12 family kernel: (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround a
ctivated.
Feb 29 04:17:33 family kernel: ** IN_TCP DROP ** IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:76:51:f6:a8:
00:e0:52:08:35:fc:08:00 SRC=66.98.54.196 DST=66.98.188.205 LEN=40 TOS=0x04 PREC=0x00
TTL=113 ID=10952 PROTO=TCP SPT=1025 DPT=1793 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0
Feb 29 04:18:49 family named[5825]: client 202.156.1.67#1234: error sending response
: host unreachable
Feb 29 04:19:29 family last message repeated 5 times
Feb 29 04:19:48 family kernel: ** IN_TCP DROP ** IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:76:51:f6:a8:
00:e0:52:08:35:fc:08:00 SRC=66.98.54.196 DST=66.98.188.209 LEN=40 TOS=0x04 PREC=0x00
TTL=113 ID=17385 PROTO=TCP SPT=1025 DPT=1114 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0
Feb 29 04:22:32 family pure-ftpd[21426]: (?@127.0.0.1) [INFO] New connection from 12
7.0.0.1

Can you help me find the solution? Thanks

[ddeans]

I have the same problem, I use PHPSYS and it shows 99% Memory Usage, but if you look in WHM at processes or whatever, there is nothing there. If I look at cPanel Service Monitor Memory Usage is at like 24-50%, I don't know rather to beleive PHPSYS or cPanel?

[lexmark]

Originally posted by thaphantom
nothing there shows anyhting wrong. Those are all normal.

What process is using all the RAM?

I have no earthly idea

[Website Rob]

It is a shame that whomever you are paying for ServerAdmin does not have the Sales skills to offer you more services. Would require additional payment probably, but at least you would have someone who (supposedly) knows what they are doing look at the situation.

As it stands, your post does not give enough or correct type of information, for anyone to give you a decent answer.

If you are familiar with the 'top' command it is the place to start. From there you can go to various areas for checking. Can you give the first 12 or so lines of what 'top' shows?

[lexmark]

I am currently logged into top with 3 other friends who are logged in and looking at my site. Everything seems ok for now but that wont last:

16:13:00 up 2:31, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.31, 0.37
114 processes: 113 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 1.5% 97.6%
Mem: 1022480k av, 1005248k used, 17232k free, 0k shrd, 38264k buff
724284k actv, 246176k in_d, 6648k in_c
Swap: 2048276k av, 100568k used, 1947708k free 738540k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
6308 nobody 15 0 18228 16M 8288 S 0.1 1.6 0:39 0 httpd
7520 tester2 15 0 1176 1176 796 S 0.1 0.1 0:05 0 top
26387 root 15 0 1248 1248 896 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 0 top
1 root 15 0 492 464 436 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
7 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kscand
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kupdated
9 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 mdrecoveryd
13 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald
69 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
712 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kjournald

[Website Rob]

Ok then, post 'top' again when things are buggie.

[lexmark]

Ok, it seems to only go bad when I fall asleep that is so weird lol. I could stay awake for 22 hours the minute I fall asleep the server crashes lol

[zappz]

Originally posted by ddeans
I have the same problem, I use PHPSYS and it shows 99% Memory Usage, but if you look in WHM at processes or whatever, there is nothing there. If I look at cPanel Service Monitor Memory Usage is at like 24-50%, I don't know rather to beleive PHPSYS or cPanel?

PHPSysinfo version 2.1 has a bug which prevents it from displaying memory usage correctly. Either downgrade to version 2.0 or use MRTG.

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

Regards

[Website Rob]

There is no 'bug' in phpSysInfo 2.1, as it is showing Memory Usage by the System itself -- not an individual process.

When in doubt, just use the 'top' command.

[lexmark]

Ok, my server is beginning to lag now and the loads are rising:

16:35:41 up 2:54, 4 users, load average: 1.43, 1.18, 0.78
119 processes: 118 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 15.1% 0.0% 0.7% 1.1% 0.5% 30.2% 51.9%
Mem: 1022480k av, 972432k used, 50048k free, 0k shrd, 39748k buff
718564k actv, 218472k in_d, 5656k in_c
Swap: 2048276k av, 138412k used, 1909864k free 681068k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
6337 nobody 15 0 12996 11M 2644 S 4.7 1.1 0:41 0 httpd
6142 nobody 15 0 12980 11M 2756 S 4.3 1.1 0:44 0 httpd
6143 nobody 15 0 20692 19M 2688 S 3.3 1.9 0:35 0 httpd
31812 nobody 16 0 9848 7012 2096 D 1.5 0.6 0:01 0 httpd
6148 nobody 15 0 11908 10M 2292 D 0.5 1.0 0:36 0 httpd
6397 mysql 15 0 34760 18M 1164 S 0.3 1.8 0:43 0 mysqld
7520 tester2 15 0 1196 1196 796 S 0.1 0.1 0:07 0 top
1 root 15 0 492 460 436 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init
2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
3 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kapmd
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
7 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kswapd
6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kscand
8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kupdated

[Website Rob]

Here's a few starting points.

1. Once 'top' is started use the 'c' key to see more info on the processes

2. Are you sure that the high load is not from Cpanel running an update or backup?

Edit: if under COMMAND (far right) it shows something like:

cpanellogd - setting up logs for 'accountID"

then it's just Cpanel doing an update.

[lexmark]

Ok false alarm, usually once the load hits 1 it continues to rise up to 25+ I will post more info for when the server begins to crash. No the backups run at night around 2 AM.

[zappz]

Originally posted by Website Rob
There is no 'bug' in phpSysInfo 2.1, as it is showing Memory Usage by the System itself -- not an individual process.

When in doubt, just use the 'top' command.

Don't bother answering without reading. ddeans reported a difference in memory usage between WHM and PHPsysinfo. The reason I gave was that PHPSysinfo has a memory reporting bug that is well known in V2.1 of PHPSysinfo. The bug tracker clearly shows this.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...15&atid=100015

There are many other reports of this bug on the PHPsysinfo forums. Looking at it now, there appears to be a fix for V2.1

Now back to your post and these forums - There are lots of mis-information posts which you and other members contribute to. Please read before posting and these forums will be a useful source of information and not full of rubbish with no real use.

Before you jump on this as well - it's gone offtopic due to a thread hijack. Just had to get it off my chest.

[Website Rob]

Not a problem, zappz. Lots of people do not test & verify so they do not know what the results are, compared to what they should. Perhaps if you had done that you would see what I posted is absolutely correct.


Edit: just looked at the link you posted:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...15&atid=100015
PHP Sysinfo and Linux Kernel 2.6

Now, maybe I missed it, but I didn't see kernel 2.6 mentioned anywhere in this thread. As you were the one to post the above link, perhaps you can point out where these thread mentions the 2.6 kernel?

[zappz]

Oh man, I don't know why I bother!

Here's another bug report for PHPSysinfo memory reporting without a Kernal version!

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...15&atid=100015
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...15&atid=100015

As stated before, there are many bug reports there, and taking a quick look over their forums, many people report it. I guess your one of those people that can pick something easy out of a post without even checking further.

I agree with your general response to the question and it is indeed correct - your response to mine wasn't and still isn't

ddeans, please try a different version or apply the patch to PHPSysinfo.