By umpire
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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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
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
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