I'm having a problem on the ROK server that is hard to solve. The server runs on LAMP with cPanel. ROK runs on Wordpress.
On Monday, I noticed the server load was running high (above 5 on 16 CPUs when normally it's under 1). Traffic wasn't any higher. The server would then spike to server loads of over 150, crash, and then come back online to a load of around 5 or so. It would then spike again before crashing once more). Working on the back end to edit articles was extremely slow.
First thing I did was disable Wordpress's heartbeat function, but that didn't help. Then I disabled most of the plugins. There was one plugin that uses the wp-admin-ajax function. Disabling it reduced the load somewhat, but the spikes kept happening. I'm pretty sure it's not the Wordpress installation.
Then I changed Cloudflare's security protection to the highest ("I'm under attack!"). This would immediately halve the server load to around 3 and stopped the server spikes, but the load is still higher than before. Whenever I disabled the Cloudflare and lowered the security to "High", the load immediately double and soon I see another spike.
When I looked in Cloudflare's analytics, there is hardly anything under Threats. (The browser challenged spiked when I changed the security protection).
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It does seem like memory usage is high:
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I used to know a top command where you can take a snapshot over a period of time (e.g. 5 minutes), but I forgot how to do that.
Any ideas?
On Monday, I noticed the server load was running high (above 5 on 16 CPUs when normally it's under 1). Traffic wasn't any higher. The server would then spike to server loads of over 150, crash, and then come back online to a load of around 5 or so. It would then spike again before crashing once more). Working on the back end to edit articles was extremely slow.
First thing I did was disable Wordpress's heartbeat function, but that didn't help. Then I disabled most of the plugins. There was one plugin that uses the wp-admin-ajax function. Disabling it reduced the load somewhat, but the spikes kept happening. I'm pretty sure it's not the Wordpress installation.
Then I changed Cloudflare's security protection to the highest ("I'm under attack!"). This would immediately halve the server load to around 3 and stopped the server spikes, but the load is still higher than before. Whenever I disabled the Cloudflare and lowered the security to "High", the load immediately double and soon I see another spike.
When I looked in Cloudflare's analytics, there is hardly anything under Threats. (The browser challenged spiked when I changed the security protection).
It does seem like memory usage is high:
I used to know a top command where you can take a snapshot over a period of time (e.g. 5 minutes), but I forgot how to do that.
Any ideas?
Roosh
http://www.rooshv.com