I really need your help, high Memory Usage

[ddeans]

Well it was supposed to be a gig. But even PHPsys says: 882.89 MB, Shouldn't it say 1024?

 

[Steve-PWH]

Originally posted by ddeans
Okay I installed that, it may look better for the customers but what it reports and what 'top' reports are alot different. Which should I beleive?

The code is ripped out of 2.0 and modified for 2.1

Basicly its 2.0 memory reporting in 2.1

 

[ddeans]

But which is more accurate? PHPSYS or 'TOP'?

 

[Steve-PWH]

Originally posted by ddeans

Mem: 904076k av, 891128k used, 12948k free, 0k

Thats a dam strange memory total? Somthing defo up there

 

[Steve-PWH]

Originally posted by ddeans
But which is more accurate? PHPSYS or 'TOP'?

Reporting

Mem: 904076k

When u have 1024mb installed I would say neither is accurate and u have a RAM problem

 

[Website Rob]

Although not being divisable by 8 is not a definitive problem, if 1 GB of RAM has been installed then 'top' should show something like: 102****k with the '102' definitely showing first.

That's why I stated a total hardware check should be done, as there could be more or something other than RAM, wrong with your Server.

 

[ddeans]

I will have my NOC do that first thing Monday, and definitially get the RAM swapped out. If it still does the same thing I will post it here. Thanks!

 

[lexmark]

Ok, like always I went to eat dinner, when I returned to check my server the CPU load is so high I cant even login into anything

 

[lexmark]

Whoa I think I found something!!!!!! What the.. gzip? I looked into WHM logs and saw this:

Top Process %CPU 92.6 gzip
Top Process %CPU 74.2 gzip
Top Process %CPU 73.1 gzip


Where is the gzip coming from?

 

[ddeans]

do you have backups running or anything like that?

 

[lexmark]

Yes but they are scheduled at late at night, and we just made changes so that the compression is turned off.

 

[ddeans]

do you have other users on this server is this just your server? I am wondering if a user is doing their own backups?

 

[lexmark]

Originally posted by ddeans
do you have other users on this server is this just your server? I am wondering if a user is doing their own backups?

Yes I host other sites, in fact I sent an email to someone and asked them if they did a backup, I havent heard back from them.

 

[ddeans]

Did they ever respond to you and say if they were running backups?

 

[lexmark]

No, they only swapped out the RAM, didnt say anyother more then that

 

[ddeans]

Originally posted by Lexmark
No, they only swapped out the RAM, didnt say anyother more then that

A user of your server swapped out your RAM?

Anyways, if user's arn't running backups, you don't have compression turned on, then this is over my head.

The only other thing I could suggest is that you turn off backups al-together for a day and see if the problem comes back. It seems that this problem happens at night. Is the time on your server correct? Maybe it's 3 hours ahead and backups are running earlier then they should.

After that, I have to let someone else jump in here.

 

[lexmark]

The employees at the NOC swapped out the RAM. Thanks I will try that

 

[kofi]

Are there a bunch of PHP processes running taking up all the memory?

What kernel are you using? What OS are you using.

I had a big problem with the kernel 2.4.x and RHEL, so I updated to 2.6.3 and that has now solved the problem. No more 50% uptime.

 

[lexmark]

Thanks, sorry I never mentioned that the NOC swapped out my RAM and for some reason that fixed the problem

 

[ddeans]

I had the NOC swap out my RAM, and not only did my server get slower, but the ram still reads at that goofy number. They are going to run a full hardware check tomorrow.