[wirelesstoronto-discuss] tech help needed!

[Rob Janes]

what does top say?

do you want me to log on to the box?

-rob

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Jon Pounder <Jon at pounder.com> wrote:

> Quoting Gabe Sawhney <gabe at pwd.ca>:
>
>  We need some help from someone with Linux performance tuning experience.
> > Our auth server in the past few months has been getting really slow...
> > we
> > haven't been asking it to do any more work, but while before the load
> > average sat around 1.1, now it's almost always between 6 and 12(!).
> >
> > Basically we're talking about Apache, PHP5 and Postgresql.  There's also
> > MySQL and Mailman running on the box, but I doubt those have anything to
> > do
> > with it.
> >
> > If you've done stuff like this before, please get in touch!
> >
>
>
> make sure postgres is configured to autovacuum tables.
>
> if you don't have it, install pgadmin on your own desktop (windows) and
> connect to the pg db as the postgres user, then you can fine tune whatever
> you need on there.
>
> also look for any log files that have just gotten massive, and clean them
> out.
>
> if its not been rebooted in a while (like months), also do that which will
> force a check of the drives in case anything is haywire there.
>
>
> also - btw, the listserver for this mailing list is broken, messages are
> addressed to the list rather than the person when they arrive so replying if
> you have multiple email accounts is broken.
>
>
>
> > Gabe
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> Jon Pounder
>
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