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Old October 3rd, 2006, 10:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Do I need RAM?

My website was working fine, top speed, less CPU usage etc. However, recently I have had an increase in my traffic and now my website appears to load slow and my CPU is high most of the time. What could the problem be that is causing the slow load? Would I need RAM? How would I check if I needed RAM or not?

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Old October 4th, 2006, 12:01 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Might want to check your scripts. When I was using high CPU usage, I had to remove some scripts. Might want to check that. Especially flat files for PHP, that is a must go.
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Old October 4th, 2006, 9:56 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Look at your CPU + your SWAP use.

If CPU = high
Memory = high
Swap = high

Then you need ram.
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Old October 5th, 2006, 3:06 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Old October 5th, 2006, 12:13 PM   #5 (permalink)
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>> free -m

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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1010 494 515 0 1 24
-/+ buffers/cache: 468 542
Swap: 2000 426 1573
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That does not look too bad. Have another look at it when the server is being very slow....
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