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8th February, 2010 - Posted by admin -

Hi guys, I have mid-size www server (runs only apache), works fine,
but apache restart/graceful causes high load.
Maybe it’s HW RAID issue(?), commit to RAID, flush memory (see memory before and after) …

Apache 2.2 + mod_php 5.2 + xcache (problem exists with or without xcache)
Storage HP SmartArray P400 512M, RAID 5, SAS 15.000 rpm
Accelerator Ratio: 25% Read / 75% Write
Drive Write Cache: Disabled
CPU 2x Xeon 3G FSB 800, RAM 12G @400 DDR2

systat - graceful at 1:38

Code:

12:00:01 PM      CPU    %user    %nice  %system  %iowait    %steal    %idle
01:00:01 PM      all    14.55      0.00      5.11      1.66      0.00    78.68
01:00:01 PM        0      5.77      0.00      1.73      0.42      0.00    92.09
01:00:01 PM        1      7.97      0.00      2.66      3.09      0.00    86.27
01:00:01 PM        2    21.92      0.00      7.60      1.09      0.00    69.40
01:00:01 PM        3    22.53      0.00      8.46      2.04      0.00    66.98
01:10:01 PM      all    18.06      0.54      6.41      1.51      0.00    73.49
01:10:01 PM        0      7.81      0.73      2.44      0.39      0.00    88.63
01:10:01 PM        1    11.64      0.73      3.66      2.78      0.00    81.19
01:10:01 PM        2    27.04      0.50      9.66      0.70      0.00    62.09
01:10:01 PM        3    25.74      0.17      9.88      2.17      0.00    62.03
01:30:01 PM      all    18.93      0.00      5.95      1.53      0.00    73.59
01:30:01 PM        0      8.65      0.00      2.60      0.50      0.00    88.25
01:30:01 PM        1    12.74      0.00      3.60      2.87      0.00    80.79
01:30:01 PM        2    27.33      0.00      8.39      0.90      0.00    63.38
01:30:01 PM        3    26.99      0.00      9.22      1.84      0.00    61.95
01:50:01 PM      all    17.16      0.33    30.56      2.15      0.00    49.80
01:50:01 PM        0      9.45      0.23    28.65      0.92      0.00    60.75
01:50:01 PM        1    12.62      0.61    29.75      3.64      0.00    53.37
01:50:01 PM        2    24.18      0.33    31.26      1.35      0.00    42.87
01:50:01 PM        3    22.37      0.13    32.58      2.69      0.00    42.22


load
time - 5min / 1min
13:00 - 0.85 /0.70
13:40 - 214.91 /368.09
13:45 - 131.11 /31.72
13:50 - 48.98 /1.60
14:10 - 8.61 /2.76

Apache status
32.2 requests/sec - 1.8 MB/second - 55.9 kB/request

meminfo - 13:50
MemTotal: 12299440 kB
MemFree: 5697636 kB
Buffers: 27780 kB
Cached: 1020168 kB
SwapCached: 16804 kB
Active: 4945368 kB
Inactive: 448168 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 12299440 kB
LowFree: 5697636 kB
SwapTotal: 3911788 kB
SwapFree: 3695788 kB
Dirty: 5864 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 4331532 kB
Mapped: 165736 kB
Slab: 821012 kB
PageTables: 338480 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 10061508 kB
Committed_AS: 25428832 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 269404 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359468955 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

meminfo - 13:30
MemTotal: 12299440 kB
MemFree: 66364 kB
Buffers: 40204 kB
Cached: 1161748 kB
SwapCached: 6604 kB
Active: 10365272 kB
Inactive: 485796 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 12299440 kB
LowFree: 66364 kB
SwapTotal: 3911788 kB
SwapFree: 3760076 kB
Dirty: 3344 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 9645832 kB
Mapped: 133832 kB
Slab: 978832 kB
PageTables: 356880 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 10061508 kB
Committed_AS: 30209056 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 269440 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359468907 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

Apache conf
StartServers 250
MinSpareServers 250
MaxSpareServers 360
MaxClients 400

Filesystem, ext3, noatime, nodiratime

Anyone expirienced with this problem?

Posted on: February 8, 2010

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