[wp-hackers] APC-Nginx-Apache problems / memory problems on VPS

[Ian Douglas]

Thank you Joe,

I'm beginning to think there is some kind of limitation in VPS environments. We go from one fatal error to another. It's incredible. Right now we have 502 Bad Gateways, and sometimes 504 Gateway Time-outs. If anything it works at all we have load times of maybe a minute.

I'll try to follow your steps.

I thought a decent VPS would simply work. Even we disable all plugins and it doesn't work.

And as for the plugins, people chime in that there are too many. Yes, if you're running a blog. We're trying to use Wordpress as a CMS to run a fully fledged news site. If we don't have plugins, we don't have functionality. Again, 1.3GB of RAM should handle functionality, no?

I think we have a memory leak somewhere. If someone can explain to me what those are like, and how to track them, I'd appreciate it.

We're look into the debug log. I get hundreds (like may 700 on the frontpage alone) of the following:

Notice: get_settings is deprecated since version 2.1! Use get_option() instead. in/home/bikyaweb/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3382

I wish I could even just solve this. There are hundreds of these that must also stress the CPU.


Sigh,
ian



On 28 Aug 2011, at 15:13, Joe Boydston wrote:

> Ian, I've encountered similar problems with our VPS hosting. It was a long (two weeks is long when your production server is crashing daily) and painfull process. I cant provide you with a silver bullet, but the following things contributed to resolving my issues:
> 
> 1.	Split your webserver and MSQL into two servers. (even if it's a temporary move) This gives you a sanity check about where the problem lies. If webserver keeps crashing and databasee server is nice an cool, you know for sure it's a code/config thing.
> 
> 2.	Check database performance. One of my developers wrote a plugin to analyze slow database queries from within WP. joeboydston.com/downloads/slow-queries.zip The plugin itself adds quite a bit of load/ovehead, so use it in debug mode.
> 
> 3.	Based on what you learn from steps 1 & 2, you may find like I did that some of the plugins you're using may not be scaling for you:
> 
>> google-sitemap-generator
>> yet-another-related-posts-plugin
> 
> Both of these plugins caused excess load on my server and had to be dropped.