On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Kaddeh <kad...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, I have run into an interesting problem while building out a web server > for a client which I haven't come across before and I was hoping that the > list would be a good way for me to find the answer. > > A little beckground on the systems: > P4 @ 3.0Ghz > 2GB PC2 4200 > 2x 250GB drives in RAID1 > > The system configurations are default for the most part with the server > running MySQL and Apache. > > The problem that I am running into at this point, however is that the > machine seems to run out of memory and will segfault either apache or mysql > when does so, when apache segfaults, it is a recoverable error, when mysql > does it, mysql can't recover short of restarting it. > > At this point, I have found a soft fix by running a cron job every 6 hours > or so to clear the cached memory, which seems to be the problem, however, I > would like to find a more permanent fix to this issue. > > Anything that would help at this point would be much appreciated. > > Cheers > > Kad >
I've seen a similar problem before: a chrooted webhost running Apache, MySQL, and a very old version of phpnuke. MySQL ran a muck using 50%+ of CPU time, eventually. I had a cron job set to restart it once an hour, but even that became too much. We eventually moved the site to another server on a temporary basis, then migrated to vBulletin.
