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Server Optimization request
by Guest loccom- 6 replies
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I have 4gb on my box running Dual Xeons and find my server slows down a little. I usually have around 500 - 700 at one time (mostly bots i think) Here is my config [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock skip-locking skip-innodb query_cache_limit=1M query_cache_size=64M query_cache_type=1 max_connections=500 interactive_timeout=100 wait_timeout=100 connect_timeout=10 thread_cache_size=128 key_buffer=256M join_buffer=1M max_allowed_packet=16M table_cache=2048 record_buffer=1M sort_buffer_size=2M read_buffer_size=2M max_connect_errors=10 # Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency thread_concurrency=4 myisam_sort_buffe…
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Our forum averages about 200 online at once. We peak at around 500 to 600 during serious weather events. Our server has load issues all the time. It will be sitting at around .5 or 1.0 with about 200 or 300 users and bam sky rocket to 40 or 50 almost crashign the server. But not really when we hit our peak number of hits. It often occurs when the number of connections is much lower. This is a dedicated dual opteron server with 4GB of ram and software raid 250GB SATA drives. PHP, HTTPD and Mysql have been optimized until the cows come home by me and a very experienced linux admin. Still didn't really help. While I cannot make a direct link to iowait this is the las…
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Lighttpd + Fastcgi = 100% Cpu?
by Guest paulobrien- 12 replies
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I've just moved my site (modaco.com) from a rather old redhat 3 machine to a shiny new Ubuntu box, and moved from Apache to Lighttpd in the process - I have the latest lighttpd, mysql and php courtesy of dotdeb (awesome!) Everything is running OK, but for some reason the php5-cgi processes are munching up all the CPU time! Here's my current "ps -aux" output... USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 5108 1972 ? Ss Sep26 0:02 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep26 0:00 [migration/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Sep26 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep26 0:00 [watchdog/0] r…
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Optimization Help Critical!
by Guest CVSz- 4 replies
- 537 views
Hi, Can you please help tweaking my.ini for me? My Server Spec ( Going to change to Quad Xeon, DDR2, HDD RAID Soon but need to fix the problem first): Intel P4 2.8E DDR 2 GB HDD 120 GB IDE IIS as Web server MySQL 5.0 Right now, I have about 300-500 visitors and causing very high CPU load (almost 100%) and the temperature is getting higher every sec. (Almost 90c) Here is my.ini: Any idea!? Please help. Thanks a lot.
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Lighttpd - 95% Cpu Usage. Apache - All Ram Used, Swap Comes In
by Guest Bobsuch- 15 replies
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Hi, I've hired rack911 to take care of my server, but it's just getting so frustrating, as it seems they can't fix my server/optimize it correctly. I just want some input as to what the problem is here. I got him to install lighttpd along with xcache. After about15-18 hours, the server's CPU slowly increases to be using 90-90%, giving me the 500 Internal Server Error. I've asked him to optimize xcache and lighttpd, but I keep getting these responses: Is that even correct? Or is he just getting lazy? ------------------------- So I got him to enable apache, and disable lighttpd. This time, it's the other way around. My ram get's completely used up…
Last reply by bfarber, -
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I currently have IPB running on a Windows 2003 server with another dedicated MSSQL server for the database. I'm using IIS as the web server. I am wondering if I could dramatically improve performance by replacing the IIS web server software with something else? IIS I assume is rather bloated. Has anyone else done this and if so what results did you experience?
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Database Collation
by Guest Axel Wers- 3 replies
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I am not sure in this thing. What is difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_english_ci collations? What is better or recommended?
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Ipb Causing Too Many Connections?
by Guest Capt'n Morgan- 15 replies
- 626 views
What's a normal amount of connections to appear per user (IP) on IPB? My host is blocking valid users becaue they see anywhere from 80 to 180 connections from an IP. These are regular users that aren't doing anything malicious. I don't know why so many connections would appear. Is this normal?
Last reply by rct2·com, -
Application To Monitor Website Status.
by Guest impuLs1ve- 6 replies
- 702 views
My website seems to go down alot...well, not alot, but at random times when It shouldnt. The host said there are no issues, and that they do backups every Sunday and Wednesday. I need a program that will monitor the website, and have a graph and such or something that will check every 5 minutes or something similar to see If the site is slow, or responding and report back. Is there a program/application that will do? (PHP script preferred.)
Last reply by TestingSomething, -
Mysql "sleep" Processes And Unusual Httpd Process Behaviour
by Guest cybernck- 1 reply
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hello there, i've moved my forum (IPB 2.3.1, ~3000 members, ~300 Mb DB, 50 users online on average) away from shared hosting to a VPS and it seems to be running a lot faster, however, i've now come across some errors. it seems that many of my forum's MySQL processes eventually and in "sleep" status and stay that way until i re-start mysqld service. 3456 username localhost database Sleep 21502 NULL 3557 username localhost database Sleep 21035 NULL 3691 username localhost database Sleep 19915 NULL ... 9969 username localhost database Sleep 486 NULL 10023 username localhost database Sleep 486 NULL 10096 username localhost database Sleep 28 NULL al…
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Host Provider Problems
by Guest sPiDeRz- 3 replies
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Hey there, Aright my forum is currently hosted with a company called vistapages. In the beginning they were aright never really had problems with them. However over the last 8 months they started using something called PHPsuexec. Now i don't know php i don't wanna learn it i just want my forum to run fine. But ever since they started using this PHPsuexec every now and again when i try to visit my forums it will ask me to download the index.php file.... When contacted about it my WHP (web host provider) told me that it was a fault on my end and to clear my browser cache and flush my dns. Well i did that without success, i've learned to live with it for the past 8…
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Forum Blocked, Way Around It?
by Guest Shadow Wolf- 3 replies
- 680 views
This is a request from some of my clients that I admin and host IPB forums with. Recently one of them has had their work block all websites with "register" in the domain name. Unfortunately their forum is hosted in a subdomain of a website with register in it. They have blocked it by domain name and not IP as he can go to the IP address to view it, however IPB is looking for things based on domain name, not IP the css doesn't work properly, login doesn't work, etc. Is there something server side that I can do to reroute or bypass the issue for them? Or are they stuck either dealing with it or using a proxy server to bypass it?
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Hosting Required
by Guest Pyrotechnic- 20 replies
- 942 views
Hopefully someone will be able to point me in the right direction. My IB is hosted on a shared hosting account and my host has just informed me that due to the load on the server he will no longer be able to host it when it comes up for renewal in November. Can anyone suggest a hosting solution that would allow me to move it across and what sort of costs are involved. Forum currently has 2600 members and 66,000 posts. TIA
Last reply by Michael, -
Deleting Board Tables
by Guest Myles Taylor_merged- 3 replies
- 378 views
I installed a old version of a mod which didn't work. I found the updated version, but when trying to install it I got an IPS Driver Error. I got the error logs and it said the ibf_ file already existed. So how would I go about deleting that file? I found it in the SQL Toolbox, but I'm not sure how to delete it so I can install the mod.
Last reply by C_ind_merged, -
Forum Speed Problem & Is This Right Solution?
by Guest maukka- 1 reply
- 320 views
We have ipb 2.0.4 with over 3 million post and over 10000 members, so mysql server got a problems with database size. We are working now new database-server: Quad Core Xeon 2GHz + 8GB ram (web-server is Dual Core Xeon + 4GB ram) Is that new server good enough solution and do you have any ideas for speed up forum database? (we don't want do delete any topics/post & remember that is Big database) any ideas? p.s sorry about bad english
Last reply by rct2·com, -
Hardware Requirements
by Guest yacenty- 9 replies
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Hello, currently I have small server it was OK but from few weeks I get more and more new users. it's: A64 3700+ 2gb ram SATA 2x160in raid 1 I have a few discusions about exchanging HW. there are mainly two options: 1. buy new one - DELL 860: xeon 3070 (2x2.6gb), SAS 2x disks, 2gb ram ecc (at the begining) and move there completly, cost 200E monthly 2. buy second machnie only for db - a64 3700+ or x2 4200, 1-2gb of memory SATA disks. cost 140E monthly (all 2 servers together) currently I have 280users in peak and 190-200 in gallery which option should be better? or should I use something different? what's Your feeling? Thanks…
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Very Bad Random Downtime?
by Guest Jυra- 4 replies
- 420 views
My server had been up and running for months. (shared hosting) The DNS settings are correct. It's not web browsers or ISPs. I don't know what to do. My co-admin can hardly come online to the forum and there are no errors. It's as if the site and domain (animegerad.com) does not exist (not a blank page, but one when you mis-type a domain or one that was not thought of yet). Please help. It's been effecting some people but not others. I only saw it happen once.
Last reply by bfarber, -
Blank Index.html - Loads Fine. Remove Index.html, Load Goes Up
by Guest Bobsuch- 3 replies
- 452 views
Hi, I seem to be having a problem. Seems the forum is crashing the server. So I put in a blank index.html file and renamed my forum's index.php to index.php_ The load then seems to settle. As soon as I rename the index.html file, and rename the forum's index.php to index.php the load goes up by the 2-4's per second. What could be wrong? Could it be a ddos attack? If it was, howcome the load is fine with the blank index.html file?
Last reply by bfarber, -
Warning: Unknown(): Failed To Write Session Data (files).
by Guest Phil Crane- 1 reply
- 386 views
right what happend here was i edited php.ini through whm in php config then i restarted the server (gracefull restart) when it came back on i converted a gaem for the arcade then installed it on my test forum and went to play it and i noticed an error on the site, so i checked on my proper site and on everyone elses sites and its teh same error ont hem all on my server. Can anyone explainw hat it means please: Warning: Unknown(): open(/tmp /sess_70f211f3cb21f38c748ecad35c33ccee, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is …
Last reply by bfarber, -
Hardware Feedback And Optimization Help
by Guest Bobsuch- 6 replies
- 557 views
Hey, I was hoping somebody could help me with a seeing whether or not I need to downgrade my server and some Optimization help for Apache and Mysql. Server: Intel
Last reply by bfarber, -
Email Limits
by Guest robinwilson- 1 reply
- 456 views
Hello Everyone: I hope someone can help me! Apparently my host will not allow my site to send out more than 300 emails per hour. When we send out a notice to the whole members list about 900 people are not receiving the email. Is there any way to set ipb to only allow 300 messages to be sent from the admin panel when it is an admin email? thanks!
Last reply by Thorny_merged, -
Suggestions For Server Optimization
by Guest .om_merged- 3 replies
- 379 views
Well I have just upgraded to mysql 5...Need some help with configuring the server here is my my.cnf I got a 1 GB RAM with 2.8 Ghz p4 operating Cent OS [mysqld] skip-locking max_connections=350 interactive_timeout=15 connect_timeout=15 key_buffer_size=128M join_buffer=1M record_buffer=1M sort_buffer_size=2M myisam_sort_buffer_size=32M table_cache=768 read_rnd_buffer_size=768K thread_cache_size=32 max_allowed_packet=16M max_connect_errors=10 read_buffer_size=1M wait_timeout=15 query_cache_limit=1M query_cache_size=16M query_cache_type=1 thread_concurrency=4 skip-innodb safe-show-database old-passwords = 1 [mysqldump] quick max_allowed_packe…
Last reply by bfarber, -
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- 485 views
Anyone tried LiteSpeed? It claims to be a 100% compatible replacement for Apache with superior DDoS protection, and much more efficient. Many people at WebHostingTalk report their loads dropping by half, or more. It's certainly not cheap, unless you qualify for the free std version. However, with DDoS becoming increasing simple for anyone to do, and potential saving in hardware, the price becomes more tolerable.
Last reply by njustice, -
Protection Against Scripts
by Guest Axel Wers- 2 replies
- 539 views
I found one article about block exploit attempts. Can I use this in my .htaccess without damage of my forum? ########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits # # Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR] # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR] # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR] # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL RewriteCond %{QU…
Last reply by Axel Wers, -
Ipb Causing Slow Msql Queries, High Cpu Usage
by Guest Dewayne_G- 7 replies
- 851 views
I just switched web hosting providers a couple of weeks ago and Invision migrated our forum across for us. We have tons of space and bandwidth available, but yesterday our site began experiencing "Temporary Suspension - site exceeds maximum cpu usage" warnings from our web hosting provider. When I contacted them this morning, they said it was coming from extremely high cpu usage during mysql queries of our Invision Powerboard. Does anyone have any idea what I might do to correct this? I have the text of one of the mysql_slow_query logs if that helps (one of numerous slow mysql query logs).
Last reply by bfarber,
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