vps crashing
  • Vote Up0Vote Down mark cassonmark casson
    Posts: 219Member
    hi all

    currently we have 4 sites - 2 are NS 3.4.3 - 1 is NS 3.5.5 - 1 is ns 4.0.0

    every few days the vps is crashing so have contacted the host and they have said:

    The server did not completely crash like it had been with the memory at 32mb, but some scripts running on the box needed more memory, so we upped it to 64mb, then it crashed.

    There is no error, the server is simply running out of memory

    each site basically runs newscoop - openx ad system and a small directory script

    is their an optimum memory its meant to be at or any thoughts as to what is happening

    cheers
    Post edited by mark casson at 2012-07-12 05:42:47
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
    Posts: 1,526Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    it's abnormal situation. In your case 4gb ram should be enough. Make sure that apc isn't installed. This is buggy in 64-bit environment. Use xcache instead.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down mark cassonmark casson
    Posts: 219Member
    our vps only has 512 - does that mean i need to upgrade to 4gb
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
    Posts: 1,526Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    you can try 2Gb ram. Tune up the mysql settings to use more memory for buffers since default mysql conf file is not optimal
  • Vote Up0Vote Down mark cassonmark casson
    Posts: 219Member
    my host only has options for
    384
    512
    768
    1024

    any suggestions - as you have answered a million of my questions before - i dont know anything about servers and these guys seem ok messing with the settings for me so would rather stay but the 1024mb version works at around £400 a year - most of my hosting budget
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
    Posts: 1,526Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    I guess the best newscoop hosting you can find from Sourcefabric ;)

    www.newscoop.pro

    Also you can find cheap vps from Hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq19

  • Vote Up0Vote Down mark cassonmark casson
    Posts: 219Member
    would love to let you host it but thats way out of my league

    our sites are free news sites so have very limited income

    might have to revert back to NS 3.5.5
  • Vote Up0Vote Down mark cassonmark casson
    Posts: 219Member
    is it even worth trying to upgrade to the 1024mb server or will it still crash

    each site only gets 15k visits with 150,000 page views each per month so they are now enormouse sites
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Andrey PodshivalovAndrey Podshivalov
    Posts: 1,526Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    well, some time ago I had installed newscoop sites on vps with 256mb and it was working well under low load. Any way I suggest using max option (1G)


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