Having a weird problem...

[Mr Goodie2Shoes]

A week ago, for some reason the memory usage went off the roof... and the usage was 98%... and as a result all the cron job stopped working and the site visitors were getting an Internal Server Error (which I know happens if theres no memory to allocate)

I rebooted my VPS and the problem resolved by itself and the average memory usage was 560MB

Today, the same thing happened and again resolved when I rebooted my VPS...

why is this happening?

 

[Infopro]

In: WHM > Server Status > Daily Process Log, you may be able to get some idea of which account is causing problems. At top of page click the date to go back to yesterday then click the top of the Memory column, twice to sort.

Won't give you much but should point you somewhere I think.

 

[Mr Goodie2Shoes]

Its "nobody"

I have only one client at this moment... cuz its a new server... should I reinstall my OS?

 

[Infopro]

No, I wouldn't.

Take a look here: WHM > Service Configuration > Configure PHP and SuExec, what do you have showing for PHP 5 Handler?

 

[Mr Goodie2Shoes]

suPHP... also just noticed: the only client I have was using 25% of the total memory... I suspended the account immediately...

 

[Mr Goodie2Shoes]

btw, which is the best for handling the PHP?
suPHP fcgi or cgi?

 

[Infopro]

I suspended the account immediately

Good call.

Personally, I prefer SuPHP.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

suPHP is the default handler for PHP. It's generally a very secure method of serving PHP requests. Feel free to view the differences and considerations for each handler at the following URL:

Apache PHP Request Handling

Thank you.

 

[Mr Goodie2Shoes]

okay thanks
I think the issue has been resolved, please close the thread