From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 02:00:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E545B16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:00:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC71243D49 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:00:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [63.165.31.5] (helo=[10.1.200.186]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1Cv4Nb-000Pxb-MK for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:00:00 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:59:59 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 63.165.31.5 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) Subject: how to monitor system resources etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:00:01 -0000 Hi I am having a problem with apache/php/mysql or something. One customers stuff tends to blow the machine up. I would like to be able to monitor stuff and never remember the tools etc to monitor things. Process slots, memory, buffers, etc. (I always remember how to look at mbufs buffers though) or whatever else I can look at and see if we are hitting a limit. Any pointers to stuff that explains the best way to track things down would be great. This is on 4.9/10 for now. Sorry for being so vague. I am not getting anything in /var/log/messages and the mysql and apache logs don't give a lot. Symptoms are lots of httpsd child processes in sbwait and a few in lockf state. All of a sudden load goes up from <1 or 1-2 range to over 200 and the swap space starts to rapidly fill (I suspect load is caused by the excessive swapping). The swapfile is getting up to about 55% full before it starts to fix itself). (2GB RAM, 4GB swap --- 2 x 2gb -- dual AMD Athlon MP machine). It will fix itself after a while and the load will go down as will the swap usage, but mysql or the php stuff or one of them is still hung up and won't respond. The apache only handles this site. Other customers have their own apache installations. Apache is 1.3.33+ssl (ben-ssl) Mysql is now 4.1.9 php is 5.0.3 Thanks Chad