Suspecting Server Is Causing High Bandwidth Usage
Jun 21, 2009
For the past few days, one of the server is causing a bandwidth utilization surge for the entire rack on almost daily basis. It happen for a few minutes and it went off then it will be the same thing again the next day. When the surge is happening, most of the servers on the same segment will be inaccessible for the few minutes.
The bandwidth utilization graph for my rack is recording an abnormal surge from (6mbps --> 90mbps) for the few minutes. My MRTG is showing 2 of the Plesk servers giving the problem but the NOC guys said it the Cpanel that causing the problem.
I tried logging in to both servers but could not find what's the cause for this.
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Nov 13, 2008
How to find what Perl script is causing high CPU usage?
I logged into my CentOS box tonight and notice after viewing the output of the "top" command that there are the following lines of output that have me concerned. What command can I use to find the source of the Perl script that is causing the CPU spike?
It seems it's been running for some time too.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30120 apache 25 0 6908 4544 1216 R 99.8 0.2 13416:07 perl
30654 apache 25 0 8028 4508 1212 R 99.4 0.2 13417:22 perl
21273 apache 25 0 7584 4528 1200 R 98.1 0.2 2225:12 perl
20516 apache 25 0 6760 4540 1232 R 96.8 0.2 2221:30 perl
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May 18, 2007
Which command do we type to see what is causing a high server load?
I've restarted the VPS numerous of times, and I wish to found out the problem
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Jul 17, 2008
It's been a while since I've posted in this area of the forum, but was just wondering if by now someone or some company has developed a script/software that you can install on your server that will tell you the exact area where the high CPU load is coming from, such as from someone sending email, a certain users account, and etc?
Most times, you have to be mointoring your server at the time of the high load to be exactly sure of what is causing the high load, so, I'm talking about something that will email you right on the spot of the high load in case you are away and will know what caused it.
Most I've seen only tell you that you have a high load, but don't tell you what exactly caused it.
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Jul 2, 2009
I have a site that is eating up my server resources and need to know what the best solution for this is. I'm thinking of getting another server just for mysql but do not know what specs the server should be to handle the current traffic/database load and have the site run smoothly without slowing down to a snail's pace.
An alternative is to get another server just for the videos being served and leave the database and html on the current server. This is where I'm stuck and don't know what route to take with this.
My current server stats:
Dual Xeon 5130
4GB RAM
250GB
50 Mbit/sec
CentOS 3.9
Website traffic stats:
15,000 visitors/day
150,000 pageviews/day
Serving videos
I've attached screenshots of top and bandwidth usage per day. Hopefully with this information you could tell me if I need another server or if there are any things I can do to the current server to help things move faster.
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Jul 14, 2009
In my server iowait is causing high load, how do we find out which are all users taking memory that could cause my server to use swap memory.
server : linux centos/Cpanel
I have tried the below commands, but how do we locate user specific,
ps aux --sort -vsz | head -25
vmstat 1
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Apr 12, 2008
Server is Xeon 3060, 3GB Ram, 250GB SATA-II HDD. I followed the recommendations made by mysqlprimer tuner script.
top - 11:54:33 up 237 days, 15:01, 1 user, load average: 6.06, 2.80, 1.65
Tasks: 133 total, 2 running, 131 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 13.0% us, 4.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 24.3% id, 57.8% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 3114144k total, 3096468k used, 17676k free, 30220k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 32348k used, 2064092k free, 2515412k cached
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND
8610 nobody 16 0 28 1:37.73 0.7 78908 20m 16m S lsphp4
10520 nobody 16 0 3 0:01.97 0.4 78788 10m 6884 S lsphp4
26474 nobody 15 0 2 15:04.07 0.4 14196 11m 3216 S lshttpd
28275 mysql 22 6 1 131:28.83 7.4 733m 224m 2700 S /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pi
Code:
[mysqld]
max_connections=500
max_user_connections=300
skip-locking
skip-innodb
query_cache_limit=1M
query_cache_size=64M
query_cache_type=1
interactive_timeout=60
wait_timeout=60
connect_timeout=6
thread_cache_size=128
key_buffer_size=640M
max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=2048
join_buffer=1M
sort_buffer=2M
record_buffer=1M
sort_buffer_size=2M
read_buffer_size=2M
safe-show-database
max_connect_errors=10
thread_concurrency=2
myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
#log_slow_queries=/var/log/mysql/mysql_slow-queries.log
long_query_time=3
tmp_table_size=32M
max_heap_table_size=32M
#log-queries-not-using-indexes=/var/log/mysql/mysql_queries_no-indexes.log
join_buffer_size=2M
low_priority_updates=1
read_rnd_buffer_size=2M
[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib
[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid
open_files_limit=8192
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=16M
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
[isamchk]
key_buffer=32M
sort_buffer=32M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer=32M
sort_buffer=32M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout
Whenever there are a lot of members online on my forum, the iowait shoot up, >30% and often times hovering at 60%. It'll eventually drop down to normal levels. However, during the high iowait, there are over 2.5GB of free memory according to the command, free -m
is it due to mysql not optimized or other processes? I don't think the bottleneck is on the cpu or ram.
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Nov 5, 2008
I just moved from a P4 Dual Core (2mb cache) to a Dual Xeon (512k cache) and everything has gone to sh*t.
I had the server optimized/security hardened (for the most part) and last night, I had a RAM upgrade to 4GB.
As soon as the server came back up after the upgrade, CPU usage was into the mid hundreds. RAM usage is fine....
Presently, I'm showing PHP using a ton of CPU. I tweaked mysql a little bit, and that helped slightly.
Also, last night, I had the DC run diagnostics on the RAM and hard drive. Both check out OK.
Here's the specs:
2x Intel Xeon 2.80GHz
4GB RAM
cPanel
CENTOS Enterprise 5.2 i686
PHP 5.x
MySQL 5.x
Exim
When viewing TOP or status in WHM, php scripts use the most CPU. With average CPU load around 60+
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Oct 18, 2008
a few times, my host contacted me and said that my account is suspended due to high usage of server resources.
I have 3 sites using SMF (a forum script.) I have around 8500 visitors and 3 million page views per month in total.
can this be a reason of high usage?
if it's what's the meaning of terabyte traffic limit ? which you can never use
I asked to my host if they could let me know what's causing high server resources usage. here is the answer:
We do not know which domain or script caused this high usage, it is your responsibility to investigate. I would suggest that you go through your raw access logs to see the most requested pages and then investigate those further. After you find the pages responsible, please optimize them so you are not using so many server resources.
so if a host wants simply to restrict traffic limit, they have a pre-reason under hand.high server usage! yes but how will I know that? how will I trust that it's true?
when I ask why my sites are down, they can easily tell me that it's because of high server usage!
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Oct 29, 2009
I have server load like 40.
Nothing lags.
Server has RAM usage 20% and CPU usage goes up to 25%
Swap isnt used at all.
Should I be afraid of server crash incase server load goes up to 60 or 80 without ram and cpu usage rising that much?
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Jan 6, 2007
for the last few days, i am facing high memory usage up to 90%.
Memory usage get's high, even if i don't have many visitors online. I have to restart httpd to get the memory to normal. some times, server loads, get's high aswell.
In error logs (only unusual things i see):
Code:
[Sat Jan 6 10:37:04 2007] [error] mod_gzip: TRANSMIT_ERROR:ISMEM:104
[Sat Jan 6 10:37:25 2007] [error] mod_gzip: TRANSMIT_ERROR:ISMEM:104
# top:
Code:
top - 10:42:19 up 10:35, 1 user, load average: 22.95, 10.67, 9.79
Tasks: 318 total, 1 running, 317 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 61.9% wa, 36.1% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2009652k total, 1220736k used, 788916k free, 28756k buffers
Swap: 6224564k total, 135212k used, 6089352k free, 389768k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6365 root 0 -20 0 0 0 D 40 0.0 3:01.33 loop0
4553 root 16 0 3112 1108 760 R 1 0.1 0:00.30 top
327 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 6:33.15 kjournald
3743 nobody 15 0 18592 7260 2320 S 0 0.4 0:00.21 httpd
3833 nobody 15 0 21664 10m 2780 D 0 0.5 0:00.94 httpd
3838 nobody 15 0 20472 9400 2664 S 0 0.5 0:00.18 httpd
3858 nobody 15 0 18876 7616 2388 S 0 0.4 0:00.82 httpd
3919 nobody 16 0 21492 10m 2432 D 0 0.5 0:00.82 httpd
3931 nobody 15 0 18976 8016 2716 D 0 0.4 0:00.45 httpd
4439 nobody 15 0 18892 7612 2368 S 0 0.4 0:00.16 httpd
4913 root 18 0 2512 292 244 D 0 0.0 0:00.24 sync
1 root 16 0 2484 488 456 S 0 0.0 0:06.16 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:06.66 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.16 migration/1
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.71 ksoftirqd/1
6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:14.59 events/0
7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:42.07 events/1
this looks suspisous to me:
6365 root 0 -20 0 0 0 D 40 0.0 3:01.33 loop0
as it's taking alot of memory. i don't see this before.
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May 4, 2008
For research can someone tell me what is the average transfer ratio for a game server (ie Inbound vs Outbound)
So if a game server used 200GB outbound. How much Inbound would this equate to?
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Nov 14, 2014
This is my free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1998 1903 95 0 45 542
-/+ buffers/cache: 1315 683
Swap: 2662 36 2625
Not good ....
I got 5 wordpress and 5 statics website on this server and 100 visitors by 24H00 each day.
Question 1 : Why the memory is so low and the swap so high ?
Question 2 : Why i don't find high usage process in top command ?
Question 3 How can i resolve this problem ?
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Nov 19, 2007
I have a linux server that is only hosting one site , and although the httpd and mysql are working well , then the server load is high and when I restart the server the server load is high till the swap accelerates to 100% and then it uses the memory alot.
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May 1, 2008
today i got a message from a client asking about hosting his video himself, catch is, he has a shitload of viewers, im looking at servers in the range of quad core (maybe dual quad), 8gig, 4 hdd raid10, gige uplink, however the kicker, depending on how out of whack my estimates are, 100 to 400mbit SUSTAINED upstream (spiking all the way to max'n that 'little' gige pipe)
Has anyone got suggestions on who i should even consider for this? I'm a bit dumbfounded myself as i'v never even thought about a server on this much sustained bandwidth before today.
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Mar 14, 2008
What is an alternative to help reduce the massive amounts of cpu resources a CPanel Backup Wizard causes when doing generating a full backup?
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Nov 6, 2008
My datacenter has told me about my server sending high amount of outbound bandwidth from my server:
During the attack time my email logs, I found several messages:
cpdavd failed @ Thu Nov 6 12:21:18 2008. A restart was attempted
automagically.
Question #1. How can I check which user is using cpdavd (connect from their PC to the home folder)
I suspect someone is connecting their PC to my server and uses very high bandwidth!
The datacenter says the attack is still going on when they plug in the server.
Question #2. How can I check what is sending outgoing traffic on the server right now?
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Sep 12, 2008
Like if you try to make your own server, it would cost a few thousand right? Or bought one from IBM or something. If you rent a server, it could cost you like double that I notice or even more in a period of a year.
I was looking at the prices of Xeon 5420 and they are like only 400 or something. Motherboard, ram, hdd's shouldn't amount to too much right?
And companies are charging like 50 bucks a month for a 2 gigs of ram.
Or am I actually looking at this wrong and actually am looking at desktop components? So is bandwidth the cost for these prices? In the long run aren't people being ripped off?
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Jun 15, 2008
if I could get some input on this. Currently I'm running an Opteron 246, 2GB RAM with 2TB bandwidth/mo. I run a single site which is currently 99% HTML, along with an invision forum which is fairly popular. I get about 300-400k pageviews per day.
Right now the server is able to handle this stuff without much of a problem, and the average CPU load is between .5 and 3 (after a TON of tweaking!) - the only exception is when the forum db is being backed up/optimized, which isn't a huge problem since it happens during the off hours.
The problem is that I'm running out of bandwidth quickly, and need to come up with some kind of solution soon. My current provider offers bandwidth at $1/GB, which to me seems crazy compared to other providers, so that's not really an option.
I was thinking about switching to a more affordable provider and upgrading hardware, but I'm not sure what the best approach would be. I'm in the process of moving my HTML content over to a PHP-powered CMS, so I need to make sure whatever I do can handle that... What might be a decent setup for a site like mine which consumes a lot of bandwidth and will probably need more CPU power in the near future for PHP/MySQL stuff?
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Jul 30, 2008
I have a site that uses extreme amounts of bandwidth, I checked some of the popular companies like serverbeach and softlayer. Right now I'm leaning more towards serverbeach because they are cheaper, Are they a good company to go with? Let me know if you have any other recommendations.
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Oct 21, 2009
i have a vps and its quite a new one since i just ordered it and transfered everything from my previous..
But im getting really high cpu useage and im wanting to know whats best ways to optimize this...
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May 22, 2008
I know about high CPU usage and how it works against a webmaster when his host decides to suspend an account over this.
My question is what kinds of scripts usually cause CPU Usage to bulk up.
Basically what the script is doing, that just makes it happen.
I tried Google, but i guess poor choice of keywords .
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Feb 14, 2007
I have server with P4 ( 2.4ghz) 2gb ram with cpanel and centos.
When I get more than 300 users online on my forum. Server load remains under 2 but Ram usage get's high upto 90% every 10 to 3 minutes. I have to restart apache in order to keep it down.
Currenty shows 67% ram usage in WHM and here is:
Code:
root@s1 [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2018 1645 372 0 15 293
-/+ buffers/cache: 1336 681
Swap: 1992 92 1899
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Mar 28, 2009
Am using Hypervm,my all vms are not using more than 512 MB memory but when i click on server as localhost the there is show maximum memory usage I have total 8 GB it always show 5-6 GB usage and never drop down, How can I fix this matters?
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Jan 20, 2008
i have a quad core Intel XEON 5130 @ 1.60GHz . with 6giga now of memory . i have about 300 account in it . CENTOS Enterprise 4.6 installed .
the probleme is that the memory server it used in totaly . after i was just 2Gb of ram , but sometimes the server lod arrive at 50% . for that i have added more memory (4Gb) , when i added it the memroy usage is always about 4giga sometimes about 3980Mb . the load is normal , but sometimes the server loas arrive at 50% or 60% (this is just in specific times) . after i have decided to add 2 Gb more , now is 6gb in the server . but also all the 6giag of ram is used , the load is normal but memory is all used , look to the top command
top - 02:55:26 up 1 day, 4:31, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.30, 0.45
Tasks: 157 total, 2 running, 154 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.5% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 92.1% id, 0.1% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 6229508k total, 5995668k used, 233840k free, 213712k buffers
Swap: 4192824k total, 224k used, 4192600k free, 4353968k cached
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND ....
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Oct 11, 2009
I have a Drupal site with around 1000 visitors/day on a basic VPS. (HyperVM with lxadmin) Burstable RAM is 384MB and my site reachs it.
is this normal for a site like this?
anything that I can do to decrease the memory usage?
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Mar 18, 2008
My server details
Intel 2.4 Ghz P4 Celeron
os-redhat
RAM-2GB DDR
harddisk-160+50Gb
bandwith-3000Gb
now iam haveing more that 0.50-1.20 cpu useage,also cpu useage is also increased i hosted only 6 site out what only one site use MSQL all other site are plain download site,how to reduce the cpu load can u figure me out this issue also give me some tips to reduce the cpu usage
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May 31, 2008
I noticed high cpu usage on my server since a couple of days ago. I neither updated software nor changed the configurations on the server. The server load was about 0.5 ~ 1.0 but now the average CPU load does not go below 5.0
when I stop apache (1.3) the load goes down and as soon as I start it up the load start increasing.
I checked for DoS but it seems nothing exists of this type.
I tried to follow the access_log file but from the first view nothing is strange there.
I don't have any control panel on the server. just Apache, FTP and SSH installed.
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