Hi, thanks for all your help so far. Hamish, I've checked the permissions on the assets folder "assets/Uploads" is writable by apache, should "assets" be writable also? I've been looking in the error logs, it seems to contain mainly "File not found" errors for missing graphics and some php notices for variables missing in wordpress views (the site has a wordpress and silverstripe installation the client wants to move to just silverstripe), I wouldn't expect these to cause the server any significant issues.
Adi, this is the type of server we're using http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/nitro/ (client chose the hosting, personally I don't rate Media Temple). Restarting Apache does fix the problem. Pete On 19 August 2010 09:32, Adi <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you running on a VPS or dedicated server? This seems like a apache > configuration issue. > > If you can confirm I think i can point you to some more information. > Also you should see if restarting apache fixes this porblem > > - > Adi > > > On 8/18/10, Pete Graham <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I have a live SilverStripe site that I'm experiencing major problems >> with. After the site has been running for a while it starts spawning >> multiple httpd processes, some taking up huge percentages of the CPU >> (these can be seen using top). The site progressively become more and >> more unresponsive returning 500 errors for requests. >> >> At first I thought this was most likely to be an server >> misconfiguration, but the apache setup seems fine. Strangely I've >> noticed that running ?flush=1 on the site gets rid off the spawned >> httpd processes and the servers response time returns to expected >> levels. >> >> Does anyone have suggestions about what exactly is happening here? >> This suggests to me that something is going wrong with the >> Silverstripe caching process. Does flush=1 clear just the cached php >> files or does it perform other tasks also? >> >> The site has low to medium traffic and is on fairly hefty dedicated >> server so should be able to handle the load easily. >> >> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. >> Pete >> >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
