XF 1.4 CPU Usage and VM usage shot up to 100%

[New Joe]

So after doing the change from vB to Xenforo today this afternoon things went a bit strange.
Both my CPU Usage and VM usage shot up to 100% on my shared hosting.
Which brought my site to a standstill..

I was ready to turn everything back to vB but I decided to try to fix out what is going on.

I have been running 2 vB forums on my shared hosting with URL jet for 5 years now, and never even got any where near to 50%

So what went wrong?
I had 6 members online, 10 guests and 6 robots and that was it.

The hosting had this to say:

We can see that your applications on Xenforo are taking very high cpu and memory load periodically.

It is sometimes maxing out than the allocated resources in the shared account. This is the reason why you are experiencing slowness.

+-----------+-----------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+---+------+------+-----+------+-------+-----+------+------+------+---+-----+-----+------+
| From | To |aCPU|mCPU|lCPU|aIO|mIO |lIO |aEP|mEP|lEP|aVMem |mVMem |lVMem|aPMem | mPMem |lPMem|aNproc|mNproc|lNproc|EPf|VMemF|PMemF|NprocF|
+-----------+-----------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+---+------+------+-----+------+-------+-----+------+------+------+---+-----+-----+------+
|10-11 00:00|10-11 01:00| 0 | 6 | 8 | 14|757 |1024| 1 | 11| 20|68.4M |308.9M| 1.0G|361.6M| 713.5M| 1.0G| 0 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|10-11 01:00|10-11 02:00| 0 | 3 | 8 | 24|1024|1024| 1 | 7 | 20|61.6M |196.2M| 1.0G|335.0M| 511.3M| 1.0G| 0 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|10-11 02:00|10-11 03:00| 1 | 8 | 8 | 15|824 |1024| 4 | 17| 20|180.0M|589.0M| 1.0G|485.6M|1007.7M| 1.0G| 0 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|10-11 03:00|10-11 03:05| 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 |124 |1024| 6 | 15| 20|268.8M|617.3M| 1.0G|504.0M|1013.1M| 1.0G| 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|10-11 03:05|10-11 03:10| 1 | 5 | 8 | 21|352 |1024| 2 | 7 | 20|83.8M |199.0M| 1.0G|232.8M| 415.3M| 1.0G| 0 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|10-11 03:09|10-11 03:10| 3 | 6 | 8 | 28| 61 |1024| 4 | 7 | 20|147.2M|233.9M| 1.0G|332.0M| 458.5M| 1.0G| 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|10-11 03:10|10-11 03:11| 1 | 3 | 8 | 30|125 |1024| 3 | 5 | 20|123.3M|202.0M| 1.0G|308.7M| 415.7M| 1.0G| 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+-----------+-----------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+---+------+------+-----+------+-------+-----+------+------+------+---+-----+-----+------+


It is recommended that you modify the script plugging the memory leaks.

Funny how this never happened using vB

Anyone got any good ideas why this would happen?

 

[New Joe]

Could this make addd on below this problem?

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digital-point-spy.85/

 

[Andy.N]

Disable all addons and turn on each, one at a time. Then monitor it to identify which addon caused the problem.

 

[Jake Bunce]

That is a virtual server, yes?

According to those stats you have 1GB of physical memory and 1GB of virtual memory allocated. Your physical memory was maxed for a time.

The CPU allocation is less clear, but the limit is being hit.

There is only one process represented in those stats. It may be helpful to know what that process is. It's probably PHP or MySQL though.

Could this make addd on below this problem?

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digital-point-spy.85/

If memory serves, yes. I seem to remember reports of resource problems with that addon.

 

[New Joe]

That is a virtual server, yes?

It's not no
Just the standard shared hosting with URL Jet.

 

[New Joe]

So guess it's hard to work out why this happened after switching to Xenforo from vB?

 

[RobParker]

Disable all addons and see if it's still bad.

Generally XF is MASSIVELY more efficient than VB but some addons can take a lot of resources.

 

[Walter]

Ask your host if they have proper caching for Innodb tables.

 

[rdn]

Using DPSpy addon for months without any problem or being a resource hog.