High usage on index.php

[Rho Delta]

This is using up crazy resources on my VPS... is there a way to narrow down what it could be? Possibly an add on?

 

[Rho Delta]

ServInt is recommending DSO over fastCGI due to memory usage, can you please advise on whether DSO is a good choice or not?

 

[Sadik B]

Hi

DSO is ok if you can configure it properly. With 1 GB RAM, fcgid would be a little difficult, I agree. But it can be done. I have in the past successfully configured fcgid on a 1 GB VPS with good results. But it's a pain to get it configured properly and it is not easily achievable.

There is nothing wrong with DSO per say but if you use DSO make absolutely sure that yo uget rid of all the unwanted modules from apache. That way your individual apache process will get lighter and you will be able to have more processes running and hence be able to serve more visitors. DSO's php processing is slower so pages would be slower compared to fcgid.

 

[Rho Delta]

Hi

DSO is ok if you can configure it properly. With 1 GB RAM, fcgid would be a little difficult, I agree. But it can be done. I have in the past successfully configured fcgid on a 1 GB VPS with good results. But it's a pain to get it configured properly and it is not easily achievable.

There is nothing wrong with DSO per say but if you use DSO make absolutely sure that yo uget rid of all the unwanted modules from apache. That way your individual apache process will get lighter and you will be able to have more processes running and hence be able to serve more visitors. DSO's php processing is slower so pages would be slower compared to fcgid.

Can fcgid run on 2 BG Ram?

 

[Rho Delta]

I enabled DSO and ACP and added this code to my library/config file $config['cache']['backend'] = 'Apc';

Anything else I should do?

 

[MattW]

I enabled DSO and ACP and added this code to my library/config file $config['cache']['backend'] = 'Apc';

Anything else I should do?

You can tweak the settings for APC as well. Are you able to post those settings (either from PHP.ini or APC.ini)?

there is also an APC admin page which shows how APC is working, so I'd recommend installing that as well.

 

[Rho Delta]

Thanks for the help everyone, I upgraded my server, installed DSO and APC and enabled it and my site is lightning fast right now, even when 70 users are online at once!

 

[Digital Doctor]

I upgraded my server, installed DSO and APC

I've disabled APC on your server as you are running php as suphp which is not compatible with APC. Having it enabled causes additional resource usage which can now go elsewhere.
Thoughts?

Do you still have suphp ?

 

[Rho Delta]

Do you still have suphp ?

No they removed that. I think it was preventing APC from working properly.

 

[MattW]

No they removed that. I think it was preventing APC from working properly.

Correct, it won't work with APC or Xcache as each spawned PHP process will get it's own version of the cache, which only exists while that process is alive. Once it's deleted, that cache is gone.

 

[Rho Delta]

It looks like switching to DSO has somehow blocked uploading of attachments... ideas on how to fix this?

 

[Rho Delta]

What are all of the default folder permissions supposed to be? I think DSO changed them when I switched over...

 

[MattW]

What are all of the default folder permissions supposed to be? I think DSO changed them when I switched over...

If you are using DSO, they need to be 777 for the data folders where the attachments are uploaded to

 

[swatme]

is there an alternative to SuPHP ? which will work with APC?

how about eAccelerator? can that be used as xenforo caching?

 

[MattW]

is there an alternative to SuPHP ? which will work with APC?

how about eAccelerator? can that be used as xenforo caching?

Are you on your own server/VPS?

 

[swatme]

Are you on your own server/VPS?

Im on VPS
and SuPHP is a must, i dont want to remove SuPHP for security purposes.

 

[MattW]

Im on VPS
and SuPHP is a must, i dont want to remove SuPHP for security purposes.

You'll not be able to use any OPCode cache then if you don't want to remove suPHP. I run DSO with mod_ruid2 to get the same security as with suPHP on my VPS.

 

[swatme]

You'll not be able to use any OPCode cache then if you don't want to remove suPHP. I run DSO with mod_ruid2 to get the same security as with suPHP on my VPS.

ok so an alternative to SuPHP is
-install mod_ruid2
-install DSO

then i can install APC without anymore conflicts ?
is that correct?

btw this article is good
http://boomshadow.net/tech/php-handlers/

 

[MattW]

ok so an alternative to SuPHP is
-install mod_ruid2
-install DSO

then i can install APC without anymore conflicts ?
is that correct?

btw this article is good
http://boomshadow.net/tech/php-handlers/

That's what I did on my VPS server.

 

[giorgino]

I'm running CENTOS 6.4 with WHM/CPanel on dedicated server

I've suPHP, APC and Memcahed/memcache activated. I'm wrong?