[cobalt-users] Re: If it ain't broke, don't fix it ?

["Brujah" <brujah@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Message: 5
> From: "Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] If it ain't broke, don't fix it ?
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:22:12 -0500
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > I think it IS broke!  The load is too high.  When the load gets too
high,
> > some of my scripts shut themselves off with a "Server Too Busy" message
> and
> > its really annoying my users.  I'd like to find a good solution for
this,
> > rather than ignoring it.  I can't add more sites.  The log files are
just
> > really huge, and the sites get a lot of traffic.  Not too much traffic
for
> > this to be a problem though.
>
> Why not too much for this to be a problem? The snapshot you provided
doesn't
> look too bad. It must have been taken at a lull. I see an awful lot of
mysql
> processes. Under high load, the mysql processes are going to eat lots of
> CPU. You might consider setting up a separate database server just for
> MySQL. At the very least, you should consider refining your MySQL queries.
>
> Kevin

Did you really know what you were looking at ?  I am not sure since you
didn't notice the problem was with analog at over 1/2 the memory usage
alone.  I think you didn't take a good look at the info I provided.  The
server load was at 14 and memory usage was at 98%.
At peak usage, server load is roughly 2.xx and mysql is fine.  Additionally,
I've heard others have the same problems and even resulting in a locked up
or crashed server when logs are processing.  One option I am going to test
is analogs low memory settings to see if analog will play nicer.

The server traffic is less than 200 kb/s and the Raq4r has 512mb ram.  Is
that too much traffic for it to be a problem ?  I don't think so, at least
it shouldn't be.  I'm sure many ISPs are using their Raq's with more than
that for traffic.