Server Optimization request (AMD sep 2600+)

March 15th, 2010
  • hallo ,,

    i have load on my server



    Processor #1 Vendor: AuthenticAMD
    Processor #1 Name: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+
    Processor #1 speed: 1600.527 MHz
    Processor #1 cache size: 128 KB
    Hard Desk # 160 GB sata
    Memory: 969364k/982208k available (1881k kernel code, 12212k reserved, 724k data, 156k init, 64704k highmem)
    Linux server.xxxxxx.com 2.6.16.1 #1 Wed Jul 12 02:11:17 AST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux



    apache/IIS version: apache 1.3.35
    PHP version: php 4.4.2
    MySQL version: mysql 4.1.19

    root@server [~]# top
    top - 16:39:06 up 2 days, 11:40, 1 user, load average: 12.27, 17.93, 19.22
    Tasks: 181 total, 1 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
    Cpu(s): 0.7% us, 8.6% sy, 7.0% ni, 0.0% id, 83.1% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si
    Mem: 970248k total, 952500k used, 17748k free, 38512k buffers
    Swap: 1959920k total, 253272k used, 1706648k free, 277988k cached

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    13093 nobody 19 4 34400 8756 3384 S 6.0 0.9 0:00.78 httpd
    3158 root 0 -20 0 0 0 D 3.7 0.0 84:57.05 loop0
    8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 2.7 0.0 13:43.81 kblockd/0
    11483 mysql 22 6 98.4m 64m 2264 S 1.3 6.8 287:35.43 mysqld
    13200 nobody 20 4 35140 17m 12m S 1.0 1.9 1:40.06 httpd
    12721 root 16 0 2080 1024 740 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.92 top
    142 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 1:51.47 kswapd0
    331 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0.3 0.0 6:33.50 kjournald
    3173 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0.3 0.0 2:08.48 kjournald
    13214 nobody 20 4 42704 21m 12m D 0.3 2.3 1:38.10 httpd
    1 root 16 0 1684 556 480 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.68 init
    2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0
    5 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper
    6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kthread
    9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
    93 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
    143 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
    229 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
    291 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
    305 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
    309 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
    310 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
    322 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2
    323 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_3
    1174 root 11 -5 1580 436 372 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 udevd
    1329 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event
    1354 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd
    1494 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmirrord
    1511 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
    2118 root 16 0 1596 524 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.18 syslogd
    2122 root 16 0 1540 308 296 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd

    /etc/my.cnf


    [mysqld]
    datadir=/var/lib/mysql
    socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    skip-locking
    skip-innodb
    query_cache_limit=1M
    query_cache_size=32M
    query_cache_type=1
    max_user_connections=25
    max_connections=300
    interactive_timeout=10
    wait_timeout=10
    connect_timeout=180
    thread_cache_size=128
    key_buffer=16M
    join_buffer=1M
    max_allowed_packet=400M
    table_cache=1800
    record_buffer=1M
    sort_buffer_size=2M
    read_buffer_size=2M
    max_connect_errors=10
    thread_concurrency=4
    myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
    server-id=1

    [mysql.server]
    user=mysql
    basedir=/var/lib
    old-passwords = 1

    [safe_mysqld]
    err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
    pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid
    open_files_limit=8192

    [mysqldump]
    quick
    max_allowed_packet=600M

    [mysql]
    no-auto-rehash


    key_buffer=64M
    sort_buffer=64M
    read_buffer=16M
    write_buffer=16M

    [myisamchk]
    key_buffer=64M
    sort_buffer=64M
    read_buffer=16M
    write_buffer=16M

    [mysqlhotcopy]
    interactive-timeout






    root@server [~]# mysqladmin -u root -p var ext stat ver
    Enter
    +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
    Variable_name Value
    +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
    back_log 50
    basedir /
    binlog_cache_size 32768
    bulk_insert_buffer_size 8388608
    character_set_client latin1
    character_set_connection latin1
    character_set_database latin1
    character_set_results latin1
    character_set_server latin1
    character_set_system utf8
    character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/
    collation_connection latin1_swedish_ci
    collation_database latin1_swedish_ci
    collation_server latin1_swedish_ci
    concurrent_insert ON
    connect_timeout 180
    datadir /var/lib/mysql/
    date_format %Y-%m-%d
    datetime_format %Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s
    default_week_format 0
    delay_key_write ON
    delayed_insert_limit 100
    delayed_insert_timeout 300
    delayed_queue_size 1000
    expire_logs_days 0
    flush OFF
    flush_time 0
    ft_boolean_syntax + -><()~*:""&
    ft_max_word_len 84
    ft_min_word_len 4
    ft_query_expansion_limit 20
    ft_stopword_file (built-in)
    group_concat_max_len 1024
    have_archive NO
    have_bdb NO
    have_blackhole_engine NO
    have_compress YES
    have_crypt YES
    have_csv NO
    have_example_engine NO
    have_geometry YES
    have_innodb DISABLED
    have_isam NO
    have_ndbcluster NO
    have_openssl NO
    have_query_cache YES
    have_raid NO
    have_rtree_keys YES
    have_symlink YES
    init_connect
    init_file
    init_slave
    innodb_additional_mem_pool_size 1048576
    innodb_autoextend_increment 8
    innodb_buffer_pool_awe_mem_mb 0
    innodb_buffer_pool_size 8388608
    innodb_data_file_path
    innodb_data_home_dir
    innodb_fast_shutdown ON
    innodb_file_io_threads 4
    innodb_file_per_table OFF
    innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit 1
    innodb_flush_method
    innodb_force_recovery 0
    innodb_lock_wait_timeout 50
    innodb_locks_unsafe_for_binlog OFF
    innodb_log_arch_dir
    innodb_log_archive OFF
    innodb_log_buffer_size 1048576
    innodb_log_file_size 5242880
    innodb_log_files_in_group 2
    innodb_log_group_home_dir
    innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct 90
    innodb_max_purge_lag 0
    innodb_mirrored_log_groups 1
    innodb_open_files 300
    innodb_table_locks ON
    innodb_thread_concurrency 8
    interactive_timeout 10
    join_buffer_size 1044480
    key_buffer_size 16777216
    key_cache_age_threshold 300
    key_cache_block_size 1024
    key_cache_division_limit 100
    language /usr/share/mysql/english/
    large_files_support ON
    license GPL
    local_infile ON
    locked_in_memory OFF
    log OFF
    log_bin OFF
    log_error
    log_slave_updates OFF
    log_slow_queries OFF
    log_update OFF
    log_warnings 1
    long_query_time 10
    low_priority_updates OFF
    lower_case_file_system OFF
    lower_case_table_names 0
    max_allowed_packet 419429376
    max_binlog_cache_size 4294967295
    max_binlog_size 1073741824
    max_connect_errors 10
    max_connections 300
    max_delayed_threads 20
    max_error_count 64
    max_heap_table_size 16777216
    max_insert_delayed_threads 20
    max_join_size 4294967295
    max_length_for_sort_data 1024
    max_prepared_stmt_count 16382
    max_relay_log_size 0
    max_seeks_for_key 4294967295
    max_sort_length 1024
    max_tmp_tables 32
    max_user_connections 25
    max_write_lock_count 4294967295
    myisam_data_pointer_size 4
    myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size 2147483648
    myisam_max_sort_file_size 2147483647
    myisam_recover_options OFF
    myisam_repair_threads 1
    myisam_sort_buffer_size 67108864
    myisam_stats_method nulls_unequal
    net_buffer_length 16384
    net_read_timeout 30
    net_retry_count 10
    net_write_timeout 60
    new OFF
    old_passwords OFF
    open_files_limit 4096
    pid_file /var/lib/mysql/server.xxxxxxx.com.pid
    port 3306
    preload_buffer_size 32768
    prepared_stmt_count 0
    protocol_version 10
    query_alloc_block_size 8192
    query_cache_limit 1048576
    query_cache_min_res_unit 4096
    query_cache_size 33554432
    query_cache_type ON
    query_cache_wlock_invalidate OFF
    query_prealloc_size 8192
    range_alloc_block_size 2048
    read_buffer_size 2093056
    read_only OFF
    read_rnd_buffer_size 262144
    relay_log_purge ON
    relay_log_space_limit 0
    rpl_recovery_rank 0
    secure_auth OFF
    server_id 1
    skip_external_locking ON
    skip_networking OFF
    skip_show_database OFF
    slave_net_timeout 3600
    slave_transaction_retries 0
    slow_launch_time 2
    socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    sort_buffer_size 2097144
    sql_mode
    sql_notes ON
    sql_warnings ON
    storage_engine MyISAM
    sync_binlog 0
    sync_frm ON
    sync_replication 0
    sync_replication_slave_id 0
    sync_replication_timeout 0
    system_time_zone AST
    table_cache 1800
    table_type MyISAM
    thread_cache_size 128
    thread_stack 196608
    time_format %H:%i:%s
    time_zone SYSTEM
    tmp_table_size 33554432
    tmpdir
    transaction_alloc_block_size 8192
    transaction_prealloc_size 4096
    tx_isolation REPEATABLE-READ
    version 4.1.19-standard
    version_comment MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL)
    version_compile_machine i686
    version_compile_os pc-linux-gnu
    wait_timeout 10
    +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
    +----------------------------+-----------+
    Variable_name Value
    +----------------------------+-----------+
    Aborted_clients 16
    Aborted_connects 2350
    Binlog_cache_disk_use 0
    Binlog_cache_use 0
    Bytes_received 190291384
    Bytes_sent 95604175
    Com_admin_commands 28
    Com_alter_db 0
    Com_alter_table 0
    Com_analyze 0
    Com_backup_table 0
    Com_begin 0
    Com_change_db 75479
    Com_change_master 0
    Com_check 0
    Com_checksum 0
    Com_commit 0
    Com_create_db 0
    Com_create_function 0
    Com_create_index 0
    Com_create_table 0
    Com_dealloc_sql 0
    Com_delete 3340
    Com_delete_multi 0
    Com_do 0
    Com_drop_db 0
    Com_drop_function 0
    Com_drop_index 0
    Com_drop_table 0
    Com_drop_user 0
    Com_execute_sql 0
    Com_flush 30
    Com_grant 0
    Com_ha_close 0
    Com_ha_open 0
    Com_ha_read 0
    Com_help 0
    Com_insert 12753
    Com_insert_select 538
    Com_kill 0
    Com_load 0
    Com_load_master_data 0
    Com_load_master_table 0
    Com_lock_tables 214
    Com_optimize 0
    Com_preload_keys 0
    Com_prepare_sql 0
    Com_purge 0
    Com_purge_before_date 0
    Com_rename_table 0
    Com_repair 0
    Com_replace 5818
    Com_replace_select 0
    Com_reset 0
    Com_restore_table 0
    Com_revoke 0
    Com_revoke_all 0
    Com_rollback 0
    Com_savepoint 0
    Com_select 234807
    Com_set_option 1763
    Com_show_binlog_events 0
    Com_show_binlogs 0
    Com_show_charsets 0
    Com_show_collations 0
    Com_show_column_types 0
    Com_show_create_db 0
    Com_show_create_table 1396
    Com_show_databases 15
    Com_show_errors 0
    Com_show_fields 1411
    Com_show_grants 57
    Com_show_innodb_status 0
    Com_show_keys 0
    Com_show_logs 0
    Com_show_master_status 0
    Com_show_ndb_status 0
    Com_show_new_master 0
    Com_show_open_tables 0
    Com_show_privileges 0
    Com_show_processlist 329
    Com_show_slave_hosts 0
    Com_show_slave_status 0
    Com_show_status 1
    Com_show_storage_engines 0
    Com_show_tables 1557
    Com_show_variables 17
    Com_show_warnings 0
    Com_slave_start 0
    Com_slave_stop 0
    Com_stmt_close 0
    Com_stmt_execute 0
    Com_stmt_prepare 0
    Com_stmt_reset 0
    Com_stmt_send_long_data 0
    Com_truncate 0
    Com_unlock_tables 231
    Com_update 59369
    Com_update_multi 75
    Connections 76971
    Created_tmp_disk_tables 145
    Created_tmp_files 31008
    Created_tmp_tables 14459
    Delayed_errors 0
    Delayed_insert_threads 0
    Delayed_writes 0
    Flush_commands 1
    Handler_commit 0
    Handler_delete 16363
    Handler_discover 0
    Handler_read_first 35259
    Handler_read_key 8515758
    Handler_read_next 908086608
    Handler_read_prev 201082
    Handler_read_rnd 1315024
    Handler_read_rnd_next 113995311
    Handler_rollback 0
    Handler_update 95458
    Handler_write 1377077
    Key_blocks_not_flushed 0
    Key_blocks_unused 0
    Key_blocks_used 14497
    Key_read_requests 89585995
    Key_reads 142098
    Key_write_requests 117778
    Key_writes 91428
    Max_used_connections 52
    Not_flushed_delayed_rows 0
    Open_files 3079
    Open_streams 0
    Open_tables 1705
    Opened_tables 1711
    Qcache_free_blocks 1423
    Qcache_free_memory 13430384
    Qcache_hits 261830
    Qcache_inserts 224412
    Qcache_lowmem_prunes 0
    Qcache_not_cached 8905
    Qcache_queries_in_cache 5346
    Qcache_total_blocks 12668
    Questions 735815
    Rpl_status NULL
    Select_full_join 24
    Select_full_range_join 2
    Select_range 90234
    Select_range_check 0
    Select_scan 49506
    Slave_open_temp_tables 0
    Slave_retried_transactions 0
    Slave_running OFF
    Slow_launch_threads 0
    Slow_queries 1045
    Sort_merge_passes 15504
    Sort_range 66800
    Sort_rows 893113319
    Sort_scan 29619
    Table_locks_immediate 631315
    Table_locks_waited 23916
    Threads_cached 21
    Threads_connected 31
    Threads_created 52
    Threads_running 1
    Uptime 98417
    +----------------------------+-----------+
    Uptime: 98419 Threads: 34 Questions: 735832 Slow queries: 1045 Opens: 1711 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 1705 Queries per second avg: 7.477
    mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 4.1.19, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
    (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
    This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
    and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

    Server version 4.1.19-standard
    Protocol version 10
    Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
    UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    Uptime: 1 day 3 hours 20 min 19 sec

    Threads: 34 Questions: 735832 Slow queries: 1045 Opens: 1711 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 1705 Queries per second avg: 7.477
    root@server [~]#



    [I]mysqlreport --all -tab /statistics.txt


    8. is your vB the only thing on the server? or other scripts & sites which utilise php and mysql?
    the server contain about 20 sites most of them are using mysql and most them are forum vb or ib

    Timeout 200
    KeepAlive On
    MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
    KeepAliveTimeout 15
    MinSpareServers 32
    MaxSpareServers 64
    StartServers 5
    MaxClients 150
    MaxRequestsPerChild 0


    some of then are 3.0.x and 3.5.4 and ib 2.1.16



    Linux server.xxxxx.com 2.6.16.1 #1 Wed Jul 12 02:11:17 AST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

    root@server [/usr/local/apache/conf]# ulimit -aH
    core file size (blocks, -c) 1000000
    data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
    file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
    pending signals (-i) 15347
    max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
    max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
    open files (-n) 4096
    pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
    POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
    stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
    cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
    max user processes (-u) 14335
    virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
    file locks (-x) unlimited


    root@server [/usr/local/apache/conf]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor : 0
    vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
    cpu family : 15
    model : 44
    model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+
    stepping : 2
    cpu MHz : 1600.527
    cache size : 128 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : no
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : yes
    fpu_exception : yes
    cpuid level : 1
    wp : yes
    flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm ts ttp tm stc
    bogomips : 3205.97


  • You're swapping to disk by 250+ MB, probably adding another 1GB of memory will help somewhat but sempron cpu might be underpowered for your loads..

    Before you do any upgrades try the following

    1. Upgrade MySQL server to 4.1.20 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186856
    2. Upgrade PHP to 4.4.2 or recompile PHP 4.4.2 after upgrading mysql
    3. Edit /etc/my.cnf and place the following mysql server settings in /etc/my.cnf and restart mysql server afterwards


    [mysqld]
    datadir=/var/lib/mysql
    socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    safe-show-database
    back_log = 75
    skip-innodb
    max_connections = 650
    key_buffer = 32M
    myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M
    join_buffer_size = 1M
    read_buffer_size = 1M
    sort_buffer_size = 2M
    table_cache = 1800
    thread_cache_size = 384
    wait_timeout = 10
    connect_timeout = 10
    tmp_table_size = 64M
    max_heap_table_size = 64M
    max_allowed_packet = 64M
    max_connect_errors = 10
    read_rnd_buffer_size = 524288
    bulk_insert_buffer_size = 8M
    query_cache_limit = 2M
    query_cache_size = 64M
    query_cache_type = 1
    query_prealloc_size = 163840
    query_alloc_block_size = 32768
    default-storage-engine = MyISAM

    [mysql.server]
    user=mysql
    basedir=/var/lib

    [mysqld_safe]
    err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
    pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid
    open_files_limit = 8192

    [mysqldump]
    quick
    max_allowed_packet = 16M

    [myisamchk]
    key_buffer = 64M
    sort_buffer = 64M
    read_buffer = 16M
    write_buffer = 16M

    [mysqlhotcopy]
    interactive-timeout


    4. Install APC Cache lastest version from http://pecl.php.net/package/APC. Read install guide at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=165367 - please remove Zend Optimizer from php.ini before installing APC Cache

    5. Upgrade to vB 3.0.14 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183331 if you're on vB 3.0.xx or upgrade to vB 3.5.4 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=176170 if you're on vB 3.5.x

    6. If you just upgraded to vB 3.5.x try to disable these 4 options:

    Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Forums Home Page Options -> Display Logged in Users?

    Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) -> Show Users Browsing Forums

    Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Show Users Browsing Thread

    Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Automatic Similar Thread search

    7. Edit httpd.conf values from

    Timeout 200
    KeepAlive On
    MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
    KeepAliveTimeout 15
    MinSpareServers 32
    MaxSpareServers 64
    StartServers 5
    MaxClients 150
    MaxRequestsPerChild 0

    to

    Timeout 200
    KeepAlive On
    MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
    KeepAliveTimeout 5
    MinSpareServers 5
    MaxSpareServers 15
    StartServers 5
    MaxClients 150
    MaxRequestsPerChild 500

    restart apache server


  • note : the operating system is centOS 4.3


  • yes try APC Cache without zend optimiser, if it ain't as good then go back to eaccelerator + zend optimiser :)


  • thanks alot i have eaccelerator 9.5 beta 2
    do you advice me ,, to remove it and install APC Cache?







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