my vps is struggling

[Jazzylee77]

I've been getting a real slowdown on my sites at a servint vps the past couple days. Anyone care to interpret this response?


The reason for this is that you are using all of your guaranteed RAM and burst RAM:

+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
| Resource | Current | Recent Max | Barrier | Limit | Failures |
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
Primary Parameters
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
| numproc | 255 | 256 | n/a | 400 | 0 |
| numtcpsock | 118 | 118 | n/a | 500 | 0 |
| numothersock | 222 | 222 | n/a | 500 | 0 |
| vmguarpages | n/a | n/a | 256.0 MB | n/a | 0 |
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
Secondary Parameters
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
| kmemsize | 21.3 MB | 21.3 MB | 40.0 MB | 44.0 MB | 0 |
| tcpsndbuf | 834.1 kB | 834.1 kB | 6.0 MB | 12.0 MB | 0 |
| tcprcvbuf | 797.9 kB | 797.9 kB | 6.0 MB | 12.0 MB | 0 |
| othersockbuf | 264.0 kB | 264.0 kB | 4.0 MB | 8.0 MB | 0 |
| dgramrcvbuf | 0 B | 0 B | 1.5 MB | 1.5 MB | 0 |
| oomguarpages | 505.1 MB | 505.2 MB | 256.0 MB | n/a | 0 |
| privvmpages | 1001.9 MB | 1002.7 MB | 1024.0 MB | 1024.0 MB | 17433 |
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
Auxiliary Parameters
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+
| lockedpages | 0 B | 0 B | 2.0 MB | 2.0 MB | 0 |
| shmpages | 23.2 MB | 23.2 MB | n/a | 512.0 MB | 0 |
| physpages | 504.1 MB | 504.2 MB | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| numfile | 3930 | 3947 | n/a | 8192 | 0 |
| numflock | 12 | 12 | 200 | 220 | 0 |
| numpty | 2 | 2 | n/a | 64 | 0 |
| numiptent | 14 | 14 | n/a | 500 | 0 |
+--------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+----------+

You should really be on a dedicated server with at least 2GB of RAM. The VPS product is most likely not going to work for you without a Solo Plus at the minimum.

I'm not really experiencing a lot of traffic at these sites.

[laars]

looks like you're using all of your RAM and they're telling you that you need to upgrade or buy some different option? Who's your host?

[Jazzylee77]

I'm using servint the $49 monthly package

I may try going to the next tier vps. Going dedicated with them is a budget buster at the moment $200 monthly

summary of their vps packages:

$49 Monthly

$0 Setup
1 GB Burst RAM
256 MB Guaranteed RAM
4 IP Addresses
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited User Accounts
CentOS 4 Operating System
cPanel and Plesk 8 Available
Signature 500 GB Monthly Transfer 20 GB Storage 2 GB* RAM


$89 Monthly

$0 Setup
2 GB Burst RAM
512 MB Guaranteed RAM
4 IP Addresses
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited User Accounts
CentOS 4 Operating System
cPanel and Plesk 8 Available
Ultimate 750 GB Monthly Transfer 30 GB Storage 4 GB* RAM


$129 Monthly

$0 Setup
4 GB Burst RAM
768 MB Guaranteed RAM
4 IP Addresses
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited User Accounts
CentOS 4 Operating System
cPanel and Plesk 8 Available

[Jazzylee77]

I'm hesitant to throw money at it. I have sites with much more traffic running on a cheaper multisite package at site5. Not sure about the burst ram thing though. Searching for site5's specs on that.

[spidertrain]

yea.. Vps is often limited in their Ram. I too had to upgrade from a vps to a dedicated because of the ram issue.

[minnseoelite]

If your site is not experiencing alot of traffic but is still using alot of RAM you need to check and make sure your scripts and databases are optimized and not wasting resources.

[Jazzylee77]

I've been having trouble with this version of drupal / plugins. Servint is trying to help me pinpoint the source of the problem.

[PGZ]

Well traffic means nothing with a resource site. If you are hosting your own images you could be using tons of resources even with ZERO traffic.

[treacle]

Are you hosting a proxy site at all? I know they can affect servers.

[SamOwen]

Drupal eats a lot of resources. Use only vital modules and manually delete any unused modules. Simply unchecking modules won't work because Drupal still loads them, you'll have to go into the modules folder to delete unused modules.

[Jazzylee77]

Bandwidth really isn't an issue yet. only using about 700MB / day

Drupal eats a lot of resources. Use only vital modules and manually delete any unused modules. Simply unchecking modules won't work because Drupal still loads them, you'll have to go into the modules folder to delete unused modules.


Yeah I am using an assortment of modules. Taxonomy Multi Editor, Color, Help, Menu, Ping, Poll, Search, Statistics, Taxonomy, Throttle, AdSense, Read More Tweak, Meta tags, Pathauto, Recent Blocks, Search 404, Site menu, Taxonomy breadcrumb, Taxonomy context, Taxonomy Menu, AdSense Injector, Tagadelic, plus the core stuff.

There a half dozen optional core modules I can delete and see if that helps. I kinda want to let it clog up again though and see if servint can catch it.

[Curion]

I had bad experience with site5. They are very strict about resources sharing, I had site that used 4 gigs traffics a day from them and they shut me down saying too much Apache resources. Support will answer 24-48hours at least. You can check out http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104 for VPS offers.

[Jazzylee77]

I had bad experience with site5. They are very strict about resources sharing, I had site that used 4 gigs traffics a day from them and they shut me down saying too much Apache resources. Support will answer 24-48hours at least. You can check out http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104 for VPS offers.
I have no real site5 complaints. 30 domains hosted there. using the old SuperHosting MultiSite Plan...they have different plans for their newer servers now. I get amazing use out of my $22/month and the support is terrific.