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Feb 14, 2007
I run a web design business in South Florida. I currently have an account at ThePlanet to allow me to provide web hosting services to my customers... this is what happened last night.
I received a phone call from an old customer asking me if I was considering changing my computer, i said "well, maybe". My customer then asked me to go an pickup a present. The present was a DELL PowerEdge 2950 server with 6 SCSI (SAS) hard drives 133 gigs each, 2 64-bit Intel-Xeon Quad-Core processors, 4 Gigs FBD RAM, server include an Integrated Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 management controller (with SMASH Command Line Protocol), plus an optional DRAC 5 remote management card with continuous video and Active Directory integration for robust remote server management, Red Hat Enterprise edition with 3 years of support, mounting rack, wheels and cables.
What a present huhh? OK, I'm really excited cause I know this is a top of the line server but i also know that this isn't that easy. I guess if i plug the server to the Internet it will load the IPMI management Controller and try to connect to DELL to activate the product registration or something. My customer said that he was paying a favor he owed me and that the server was too much for him. He got it on an erroneous delivery along with a bunch of boxes and he wanted me to have it since he doesn't know what to do with it. This is not like he did something wrong, he actually asked the delivery guy and his answer was to wait two weeks to see if someone claims it... after the two weeks he said that the package was already paid up to that point by the insurance and if nobody has claimed it means that the package was his possession.
Since i manage remotely my host through a control panel i don't have enough experience to build the infrastructure to provide the connection, so here are my questions...
I guess (i don't know you can correct me) that all software and licenses are pretty much unusable, right?
I cannot even think in keeping the Redhat, right?
What else should I need besides the broadband connection in order to run it at home?... i mean router type-brand-specs, firewall type-brands-specs, etc.
Do you know of any good-cheap-quality High speed connection that i can use on south Florida to provide connection to the server?
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Oct 27, 2009
Current server has 4 GB ram, all buffered by linux.
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4054 3917 137 0 99 2139
-/+ buffers/cache: 1678 2375
Swap: 4094 0 4094
The buffer has 2375 MB of free ram. However this is a heavy mysql server. I want the empty ram be used by mysql so it becomes faster.
We are currently moving to a 8GB ram server, and the free ram will be around 7 GB if we use the exact same configuration. I want the free ram to be 1 GB at most, why pay for 8 GB ram if I'm going to use a fraction of it?
What optimizations should I attempt?
I know about harddisk I/O bottlenecks, I have two SATA drives in the system, and a SAS drive dedicated to mysql, that's all we can afford currently.
All mysql databases are for SMF forums, and currently using MyISAM tables. Switching to another storage engine is a possibility, if it won't create problems in restarts and hot backups.
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I encounter this problem in one of my server today..
Memory is 99% used
Swap is 100% used
top - 20:50:53 up 2 days, 7:05, 2 users, load average: 69.58, 41.63, 24.91
Tasks: 397 total, 57 running, 334 sleeping, 1 stopped, 5 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.9% us, 96.5% sy, 0.1% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.5% hi, 1.0% si
Mem: 2076300k total, 2027140k used, 49160k free, 1116k buffers
Swap: 5245212k total, 5245212k used, 0k free, 13108k cached
Over my KVM, it just hang. When I try to type something, it shows this on the KVM screen:
[17379796.260000] HighMem 59*4kB 3*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 664kB
[17379796.260000] Swap cache: add 6615861, delete 6615849, find 2695269/27558673, race 0+86
[17379796.260000] Free swap = 0kB
[17379796.260000] Total swap = 5245212kB
Based on the message on screen, what is the message telling me?
[17379796.260000] HighMem 59*4kB 3*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 664kB
[17379796.260000] Swap cache: add 6615861, delete 6615849, find 2695269/27558673, race 0+86
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Look this:
root@empresarios [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
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Swap: 2000 1378 621
U know more than me, but why my dedicated server is taking Swap if as u cann se still have 50 Mb free of RAM?
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I am running a CPanel VPS and wanted to see whats the actual ram stats. (My package have 512 MB ram)
The issue is, using two different methods, I am getting two different values.
Via SSH, free -m gives this
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 512 204 307 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 204 307
Swap: 0 0 0
and while running a script that I have found Here in WHT
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Revised 02-Feb-2007: include kernel memory (kmemsize) in 'used' calculation
# and show percentages in output.
#
BEAN=`cat /proc/user_beancounters`
GUAR=`echo "$BEAN" | grep vmguar | awk '{ print $4;}'`
PRIV=`echo "$BEAN" | grep privvm | awk '{ print $2;}'`
KMEM=`echo "$BEAN" | grep kmem | awk '{ print $3;}'`
let TOTL=$GUAR/256
let KMMB=$KMEM/1048576
let PVMB=$PRIV/256
let USED=$KMMB+$PVMB
let FREE=$TOTL-$USED
if [ "$FREE" -gt "0" ]; then
let UPER=$USED*100/$TOTL
let FPER=100-$UPER
else
let UPER="100"
let FPER="0"
fi
echo "VPS Memory:"
echo " Total: $TOTL mb Used: $USED mb (${UPER}%) Free: $FREE mb (${FPER}%)"
It gives
Total: 512 mb Used: 482 mb (94%) Free: 30 mb (6%)
Why such huge difference??
Also "top" command shows
top - 02:44:04 up 1 day, 9:55, 2 users, load average: 1.35, 1.04, 0.94
Is that good for a a VPS with 512 RAM? (The site has extremely high traffic)
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Jan 25, 2008
I think this information can be useful for you. If you plan to get your website, here is one good free web hosting provider to choose - 000webhost.com
They provide hosting absolutely free, there is no catch. You get 250 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. They also have cPanel control panel which is amazing. Moreover, there is no any kind of advertising on your pages.
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