high memory and mysql disconnecting issues

November 30, 2017 3.3k views
LEMP PHP Ubuntu
greatsami
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greatsami

Hi,

I careated LEMP 512MB droplet with ubuntu 17.04 and php 7.1. and i uploaded my laravel project on it.
i see high memory usage between 85% and 95%, after that I upgraded the droplet to 1GB.

after that i make swap to enable me to install Redis.

Now i face 2 problems:
First one is memory is still high. there are 2 attached images appear this issue with top process in memory.

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Second problem mysql is disconnect usually and can’t restart mysql, i reboot the droplet to re work.
this problem related with cannot connect to mysql (DB_SOCKET=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock).
how i can solve those?

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  • greatsami December 3, 2017

    @kamaln7 @emestee @alastairc

    Thank you for reply and assistance.

    I like to tell you, I found the mistake in high memory, and I need your suggestion.

    I make crontab to run queue:work in laravel 

    * * * * * /usr/bin/php7.1 /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

    I comment it since 3 hours, here is a screen shot of droplet status:

    Droplet Status

    Now, how i can run queue:work in laravel without errors?

    Regards,

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kamaln7 MOD November 30, 2017

If the php process is taking up way too much RAM, it’s possible that your code has a memory leak of some sorts. I would suggest using https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar to profile your application’s memory usage and see what’s taking up so much RAM.

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  • greatsami December 1, 2017

    Sorry for late in reply, but I want to give you a biggest thanks on your reply, I installed debugbar and I reduced all User-Side queries (in one page from 59 to 14 queries).

    Yesterday, I upgrade the droplet to 3 GB RAM after reducing queries. But also mysql is crashed today.

emestee December 1, 2017

Examine dmesg and log files for signs of mysql crashing. Very likely it’s killed for out of memory errors.

Post memory profile like the output of free(1).

Ensure you have swap enabled.

In my experience at least 2Gb RAM is required for running PHP-FPM in production along with mysql/redis.

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  • greatsami December 1, 2017

    Thank you for reply, Yesterday I upgrade droplet to 3 GB RAM. i enabled swap when it was 1 GB. I want to edit swap now.

  • greatsami December 1, 2017

    i follow this link to add swap:
    https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-16-04

    I make it 6GB as I understand the swap is double of RAM, And now this is my result:
    ~# free -m
    total used free shared buff/cache available
    Mem: 3004 1532 1025 29 446 1291
    Swap: 6143 0 6143

    Is it right?

    How To Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 16.04
    by Justin Ellingwood
    One of the easiest way of increasing the responsiveness of your server and guarding against out of memory errors in your applications is to add some swap space. In this guide, we will cover how to add a swap file to an Ubuntu 16.04 server. <$>[warning] [label...
    • emestee December 5, 2017

      No. There is absolutely no reason for the swap to be 2x the size of your RAM, and on droplets that are restrained in available disk space it’s perfectly fine to go with less swap. How much you need is determined by your peak load.

      • greatsami December 5, 2017

        Hi ,
        I wrote comment since 2 days My comment

        and I solve my problem with installing supervisor :)

        Thank you :)

        • emestee December 6, 2017

          Automatically restarting a crashing service is not a solution. You still have the problem; now you’ve just made it invisible.

alastairc December 2, 2017

As another option you could run mysql on a second droplet and enable local networking for both of them. That way when your php application hogs too much memory the OOM killer will only murder your webserver workers and not your mysql database. (You’ll have to connect to your database via tcp instead of unix sockets though).

As a plus you can also increase the size of each droplet as each sides needs grow, rather than hoping they don’t step on each others’ toes, there’s also less risk of mysql losing data when it’s randomly killed.

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