Odd Diagnostics Stats?

[iWeb]

Hi everyone,

I'm running on Servint VPS and my forum seems to lag out from time to time. So, I'm wondering if there something wrong with my server? Attached to this post is a screenshot of the diagnostics.

I don't really know what to look for, but is there anything odd about the stats?

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768 MB Guaranteed (1.5 GB Burst RAM)
Hardware RAID 10
CentOS 5 Operating System

[Connor T]

I'm no professional in any sense of the matter, but that seems like lots of httpd processes.

What is your min/max?

[iWeb]

I'm not a professional either and have no idea how to check whats the min/max. :(
This is my first VPS, I'm normally on shared servers.

[iWeb]

Does anyone know what "/admin/sources/classes/itemmarking/classItemMarking.php" is used for?

My host said this is eating up a lot of my resource.

[Martin A.]

classItemMarking.php is used for marking items (topics/messages/etc) as read.


I know a lot of people around here have got great help from Gary. You might want to contact him and get a quote to optimize your VPS for IPB use. You might have services running that you may not need. I see you have a mail server running. On my VPS, that combined with the virus/spam checker was "the nail in the coffin". Used way to much resources. I changed to Google Apps instead.

[iWeb]

Thanks for the tip!

Do you know if it's safe to disable "exim"?
Would my forum still be able to send registration emails if I disable this?

[Robulosity2]

Thanks for the tip!

Do you know if it's safe to disable "exim"?

Would my forum still be able to send registration emails if I disable this?

No, Exim is your SMTP Engine so your server would not receive or send traffic on port 25 if you stop this service

[iWeb]

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I disabled a good amount of things running on cpanel and it does seem to had helped a lot. I'm still getting lag spike, but been reduced a great deal.