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MySQL crashes when uploading images in Wordpress (Ubuntu 20.04)

I have a 1GB RAM droplet with a single Wordpress site on it on Apache. It gets no visitors.

Uploading images through the WP media uploader will crash MySQL. This is more likely if I upload more images. Rebooting the server is required to fix things again. Nothing else causes the server to crash.

I was thinking it could be to do with a lack of RAM but I run another website on a 1GB droplet with Ubuntu 16.04 and don’t get this issue. Does 20.04 perform worse with Wordpress?

If I run top I normally have 65 “free” and 100-200 “available Mem”.

When the crash occurs, MySQL error log prints:

2021-01-10T00:53:30.767263Z 0 [Warning] [MY-010068] [Server] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.
2021-01-10T00:53:30.767531Z 0 [System] [MY-013602] [Server] Channel mysql_main configured to support TLS. Encrypted connections are now supported for this channel.
2021-01-10T00:53:30.807432Z 0 [System] [MY-010931] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.3'  socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'  port: 3306  (Ubuntu).
2021-01-10T00:53:34.140376Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.3) starting as process 18098
2021-01-10T00:53:34.154228Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started.
2021-01-10T00:53:34.778531Z 1 [System] [MY-013577] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has ended.
2021-01-10T00:53:35.239850Z 0 [System] [MY-011323] [Server] X Plugin ready for connections. Bind-address: '127.0.0.1' port: 33060, socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqlx.sock
2021-01-10T00:53:35.594495Z 0 [System] [MY-010229] [Server] Starting XA crash recovery...
2021-01-10T00:53:35.630346Z 0 [System] [MY-010232] [Server] XA crash recovery finished.
2021-01-10T00:53:47.286121Z 0 [Warning] [MY-010068] [Server] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.
2021-01-10T00:53:47.286781Z 0 [System] [MY-013602] [Server] Channel mysql_main configured to support TLS. Encrypted connections are now supported for this channel.
2021-01-10T00:53:47.338498Z 0 [System] [MY-010931] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.3'  socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'  port: 3306  (Ubuntu).
2021-01-10T00:53:58.940189Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.3) starting as process 18166
2021-01-10T00:53:59.023721Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started.
2021-01-10T00:54:16.018441Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.3) starting as process 18204
2021-01-10T00:54:16.089162Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started.
2021-01-10T00:54:52.357857Z 1 [System] [MY-013577] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has ended.

Apache error log doesn’t contain anything to do with the issue.

I have tried:

  • sudo apt-get-update
  • Running a media cleaner WP plugin. The site was transferred over by copying from another site, so I thought that deleting old images might help, but it didn’t.
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alexdo • January 11, 2021

Hello, @umpire

I will definatelly recommend you to add a swap file if you haven’t done this yet and also use the MySQL tuner script and see if the MySQL configuration needs an improvement.

You can also create a simple bash script to check if MySQL is running and if not to restart it.

#!/bin/bash

# Check if MySQL is running
sudo service mysql status > /dev/null 2>&1

# Restart the MySQL service if it's not running.
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    sudo service mysql restart
fi

Run this script every 5 minutes using a cron job like this one:

 */5 * * * * /home/user/scripts/monitor.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

Bobby Iliev • January 10, 2021

Hi there @umpire,

It is possible that the PHP max_memory is set too high or the MySQL settings might need to be tweaked.

I could suggest the following things:

  • First check your PHP and/or Apache error logs for some more information on what might be causing the problem
  • Add a SWAP file so that you could have some extra buffer in case that your memory runs out
  • Reduce the PHP memory to 128M if possible so that it does not use to much RAM for a single process
  • Tweak your MySQL settings

Let me know how it goes. Regards, Bobby

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