[ic] How to determine cause of load spikes.
DB
DB at M-and-D.com
Sat Nov 4 11:39:44 EST 2006
I'm running IC 5.4.1 using a mysql database of about 500,000 items on a
dual Xeon box with 4GB of RAM. Once in awhile I'll notice the site
become sluggish. During these periods the cpu load is always fairly
high. I suspect these events are caused by an inefficient search on the
large products database. See below for an example 'top' output during a
recent event:
top - 11:26:03 up 31 days, 20:50, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 0.97, 0.67
Tasks: 227 total, 2 running, 223 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 25.1% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 74.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 4040624k total, 3568748k used, 471876k free, 118736k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 8664k used, 2022944k free, 1453916k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
26248 inter 25 0 1367m 1.2g 1880 R 100 32.4 0:47.43 interchange
So I can identify the offending process ID, but how can I determine what
this process is doing to cause such a load? If I can determine what
search is being run or which of my pages is being accessed then I can
probably correct the problem.
Bumping the RAM up to 4GB has drastically reduced the extent of the
problem, but I want to find and correct the real cause of the trouble.
DB
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