It just happened again. I had to restart apache twice. At one point I saw 135 apache processes running. And heavy traffic that I think is coming from memcache, but I'm not sure. Maybe I need to clear the cache?
--Steve On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 8:09:39 AM UTC-7, Steve wrote: > > I know this is a shot in the dark, but I was hoping people with more > apache experience and better knowledge of RB might be able to give me some > pointers. We're running RB 1.7.12 on a Centos6 box on a very beefy machine > which is dedicated to RB. We're using MySQL and perforce and have close to > 900 users. About twice a week (sometimes more) the load average on the > server spikes into the hundreds and the server becomes unresponsive. The > only recourse is to stop apache, wait for the load average to come down and > then restart. Sometimes when we restart, it spikes again immediately so we > typically pause for a bit and let the load average get down under 1 before > restarting. When this happens, it looks like there a way more apache > processes running than there should be. We're using the default settings > for apache on linux, which I believe limits the number of connections. It > also looks like there's a lot of traffic going from apache to memcache, > which is running on the same machine. > > I know this is not much to go on, but I was hoping someone who has > experience with fine-tuning RB on a linux server might give me some > pointers as to where to begin. > > Thanks > > --Steve > > -- Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ --- Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ --- Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.