LAMP Server Performance Advice / Job Offer

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Or just review the MaxClient settings. Target (RAM per apache process)
* MaxClients < (total system RAM).

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Jeremy Fowler <jeremy.f76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dump Apache, install Nginx and use PHP-FPM...
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> problem = solved
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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:29 PM, J. Wade Michaelis
> <jwade at userfriendlytech.net> wrote:
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>> I work for a consulting / hosting firm in Topeka, and I have a server that
>> is periodically crashing.  The last couple of times, it appears to have been
>> due to the server running out of memory.  It is a virtual server (on VMware
>> ESX), so I increased the RAM from 2GB to 4GB and the virtual CPUs from 1x
>> single-core to 2x quad-cores. However, it may be a week or more before I can
>> tell if this has resolved the issue.
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>> What I am looking for is advice on how to track down the cause
>> definitively, and prevent it from occurring again.  (My client is
>> complaining about the downtime.)  When this occurred last time (~ a week
>> ago), I installed sysstat to try and track the performance, but when I went
>> to look at today's report, I got a message saying: "Invalid system activity
>> file".  Viewing yesterday's report works just fine, so I'm thinking that the
>> hard-reset I performed this morning F'd up the report.
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>> We would be willing to pay the right person for their expertise, and I
>> hope to learn something in the process.  I'm fairly knowledgeable, but I
>> think I may be in over my head on this one.
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>> The OS is CentOS 6.3, and it is dedicated to a single website running the
>> Magento e-commerce software, which relies heavily on MySQL.  Any advice or
>> assistance would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> ~ j.
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