Slow apache response

[Shane Ambler]

On 17/8/05 8:57 PM, "Eric Anderson" <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:

> Shane Ambler wrote:
>> I am running a traffic exchange site and have just moved to a dedicated
>> server (new server has been running 15 hours).
>> 
>> Server is a P4 1.8G with 1024MB RAM
>> 
>> Pages seem to be loading slower than the previous virtual server account but
>> looking at top shows idle% to stay above 80
>> 
>> The mysql backend is located off the server and has not changed in any way
>> when the web server changed.
>> 
>> Wusage reports show upto 10,000 hits an hour for the end of yesterday and up
>> to 18,000 hits a few hours ago. (these are the new server stats)
>> 
>> One thing that has me curious is apache is started with 150 servers (which I
>> am fine with) and currently I count 178 instances of apache running - but in
>> top all but a couple show their state as lockf which I can't find a
>> reference to.
>> 
>> Apart from apache there is sendmail and ssh running (and the basics such as
>> tty's, cron and syslog)
>> 
>> All pages are php.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how I can get response times up?
> 
> What state are the running httpd processes in (not the ones in lockf)?
> 
I'm seeing sbwait select kqread

> Also, did you compile apache from ports, or install via package, or other?
> 
The hosting provider (webair) installed from their own package

Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
Server built:   Feb 10 2005 12:34:22

If you are wondering about me asking them I have root access which to get I
agreed to take full responsibility for admin etc.

> Have you tried bumping up the number of servers to 200?
> 
> Can you send the output of:
> 
> netstat -m
> uname -a
> 

> netstat -m
131/784/26624 mbufs in use (current/peak/max):
        110 mbufs allocated to data
        21 mbufs allocated to packet headers
103/304/6656 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max)
804 Kbytes allocated to network (4% of mb_map in use)
0 requests for memory denied
0 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines
> uname -a
FreeBSD mission.webair.com 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 16
10:19:30 EDT 2005     root at mission.webair.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/asck1
i386

I compiled the kernel removing most device options and adding ipfw

> Eric
> 
> 
> 

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Shane Ambler
Sales Department
007Marketing.com
Shane at 007Marketing.com