> On Feb 4, 2014, at 3:46 AM, Jussi Hirvi <listmember at greenspot.fi> wrote: > >> On 3.2.2014 19.58, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> That's a*lot* of apache. Is that really correct? Do you really need that >> many threads? How heavily is the webserver used? > > Is this a good measure? At least it's exact. :-) > # du -sh /var/log/httpd > 261M /var/log/httpd > > Those logs are rotated with default settings, 5 logs kept. The activity > went up recently, when a new, quite complex Wordpress site was launched. > That might have a lot to do with the crashes. > >> Also, I see mysql running - does the website use it? > > Many websites on that host use MySQL, yes. > > On 3.2.2014 21.44, Kwan Lowe wrote: >>> Mem: 1361564k total >> That doesn't look like a lot of memory.. Possible to >> add another .5G or so? > > Ok, I added RAM (remember, this is a VM). Now I got > Mem: 2365180k total > Swap: 3014648k total > > This might help me some way. My experiences so far indicate that a > webserver/nameserver should be ok with 2 gigs RAM plus some swap. I am > not sure how much it depends on the amount of traffic. > > - Jussi Others have mentioned tuning httpd.conf parameters. Problem is apache doesn't give you the math to know what to set those without lots of trial-and-error. The best guide for this math is from F5: http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-apache-dg.pdf