I asked a question the other day about using top on a multi-processor
machine. As a side note, I asked how mysqld could be consuming more
than 100% of CPU power...
last pid: 43730; load averages: 1.93, 2.64,
2.22 up 92+19:45:54 09:26:27
238 pr
John Almberg wrote:
Luckily, I have a pretty powerful machine sitting right next to my main
webserver that I mainly use for backup. The two servers are directly
connected to each other with a twisted ethernet cable, using extra NIC
cards in the machines, so they have a fast, dedicated 'LAN' to
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
[snip]
In the second case, it's really just about competition for
resources. I
suspect that you could have achieved a pretty good speed-up simply by
adding another hard drive to your server and moving all of the
dat
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
John Almberg wrote:
Luckily, I have a pretty powerful machine sitting right next to my
main webserver that I mainly use for backup. The two servers are
directly connected to each other with a twisted ethernet cable,
using extra NIC cards in
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:58:54 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> I suspect that you could have achieved a pretty good speed-up simply by
> adding another hard drive to your server and moving all of the database
> onto it, separate from the web root and any other areas which apache
> would be doing a lot of
When I go back and look at the original top output for the single
machine I note that it's out of RAM. It looks to me like apache and
mysqld were contending over memory.
Can you explain this idea in more detail, Chris? I thought this TOP
display indicated that there was still 2G free. A
Since MySQL is clearly the bottleneck of the sites, I'd investigate
why in the
world apache2 needs >150M per process.
Now that was a darn good question.
I ran httpd -M and got a list of 60 loaded modules... duh.
I said before I'm just a beginner Admin. I'm learning a lot, but some
of these
On Jul 6, 2008, at 5:10 PM, John Almberg wrote:
Since MySQL is clearly the bottleneck of the sites, I'd investigate
why in the
world apache2 needs >150M per process.
Now that was a darn good question.
I ran httpd -M and got a list of 60 loaded modules... duh.
I said before I'm just a begi
John Almberg wrote:
> I asked a question the other day about using top on a multi-processor
> machine. As a side note, I asked how mysqld could be consuming more
> than 100% of CPU power...
[snip]
> Well, that mysqld reading should have been a warning to me. This
> weekend, my webserver with abou
