Hi all,
I've been having the following problem with my machine (400MHz, 192 MB
RAM, 8.4 GB SCSI disk):
1:27am up 3 days, 7:33, 8 users, load average: 24.07, 14.76, 9.20
Every once in a while, the load average gets up to a very high level (at
this point, programs start getting "Out of memory!" errors, etc.).
I don't really know what to do to fix this, other than typing
/sbin/reboot. Looking at "top" doesn't show any very big processes, so I
suspect it might be being caused by a large number of small processes.
This is a web server; one of the sites I have on it, animewallpapers.com,
is much more popular than all the other sites. Since most of the activity
on the server is from httpd, I'm guessing that this site (which runs
Apache::ASP) is responsible. I can't tell for sure, though.
Could someone point me in the right direction as to how to:
(1) find out what is causing my server to become so slow (perhaps there's
some sort of benchmarking tool I can use?)
(2) fix it (if animewallpapers.com's ASP scripts is causing it, I would
have to figure out how to recode them more efficiently)
Thanks,
-Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
