The best way is to find out what the problem actually is. Have you looked at /var/log/httpd/error_log and related logs?
What about MySQL? When it's timing out, what's top report? Does the site ping properly when these failures occur?
Your question is sorta like going to a mechanic and saying "My car sometimes doesn't run - what's wrong with it?". Apache/MySQL don't just quit working without a very good reason - stock CentOS 4.2 install will handle mid-level traffic (many millions of hits per month) on commodity hardware with virtually no configuration changes or performance tuning, so problems like you describe are most certainly due to a problem, usually hardware.
-Ben
On Friday 20 January 2006 14:02, John Plemons wrote:
I have a site running the current version of Centos 4.2, it has a shopping cart running on it and runs slow and times out at random. The cart is a simple php package using a MySQL database backend.
Can any one think of ways to improve the speed in MySQL and Apache, I've had the cart checked by the software vendor, it's working like it should, they are pointing to MySQL or Apache and a maybe...
Thank you, John Plemons
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