High CPU and Memory Load on Ubuntu 12 and LAMP

January 26, 2015 3.5k views
deskha
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deskha

I have a droplet of 1 cpu 1 gb ram running ubuntu 12 (32 bit) and LAMP
And somehow i feel that the website is running so slow (wordpress with only 1 user and very few data because i'm still developing)
so i put Monit and it says:
Status Load CPU Memory Swap
Resource limit matched [0.19] [0.41] [0.22] 11.3%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%wa 85.7% [879476 kB]

so put some 1Gb swap
and the cpu went as much as 98%
so i ran top and i see apache2 is using most of the memories

Any solution
I tried so many solution like limiting cpu etc but didn't work

i'm a noob in linux and vps...so please be kind

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  • deskha January 26, 2015

    So i disabled autoindex and made this kind of miodification
    StartServers 3
    MinSpareServers 3
    MaxSpareServers 5
    MaxClients 30
    MaxRequestsPerChild 0

    it was lowered down to around 50-60%, so i hope it won't climb back, because as for now i barely have contents and user....

    Any specific suggestion to optimize my case?

    thank you

  • deskha January 26, 2015

    Now the cpu is 100% and the memory is 80%...........

  • magiccamera January 26, 2015

    I had similar situation where the load spiked drastically this morning. But have no definitive solution to help you other than maybe you could create an additional droplet and connect it to your main via a private network IP address and have it run some of the processes for your internet facing droplet.

    I personally use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (LTS = Long Term Support) Ubuntu 12 is nearing its "end of life" cycle. Check out https://help.ubuntu.com and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommunityHelpWiki loads of information and lots of tutorials. Another great site to help you with inspiration is https://www.howtoforge.com it's got lots of tutorials on building specific types of servers for Ubuntu and other OSes.

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deskha January 26, 2015

so i checked, 3 of the most memory users are:

  1. apache2 (www-data) 10-20% Cpu Usage, 280-350 MB memory usage
  2. clamd (clamav) 0-10% cpu usage, 220-280 MB memory usage
  3. apache2 (admin) 0-15% cpu usage, 90-200 MB memory usage

is this normal? is there any way to improve this? please........

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juanbrujo June 6, 2015

Finally this helped, none of other solution did any change (add swap, monitor for banned iP's, upgrade droplet):

## Edit /etc/my.cnf, and add the following line under the [mysqld] heading.
[mysqld]
innodb_buffer_pool_size=64M

Then restart: $ service mysql restart

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