Server optimization request
 

1. dedicated server with 9 sites. 2 sites using vbulletin, 3 sites on Zencart and the rest just HTML and Flash.

2. your server specs. For example:

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2000.000 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 6144 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
Processor #2 speed: 2000.000 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 6144 KB
Memory: 4GB
SCSI device sda: 488395055 512-byte hdwr sectors (250058 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 488395055 512-byte hdwr sectors (250058 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.8, MySQL: 5.0.81

3. what version of vB are you running?
3.7 and 3.6.4

4. if you use mysql 4.x instead of mysql 3.23.x, do you have any innodb type databases/tables on your server ?

No

5. if possible how mysql was compiled/installed

no idea
6.

Quote:
top - 23:32:40 up 1 day, 23:07, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
Tasks: 132 total, 1 running, 131 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 5.0%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 7.7%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4037932k total, 3893412k used, 144520k free, 279924k buffers
Swap: 4208988k total, 100k used, 4208888k free, 3138244k cached
7.
[mysqld]
#skip-name-resolve
safe-show-database

8. Quote:
| Bytes_received | 7836403 |
| Bytes_sent | 561369694 |
| Com_admin_commands | 31 |
| Com_alter_db | 0 |
| Com_alter_table | 0 |
| Com_analyze | 0 |
| Com_backup_table | 0 |
| Com_begin | 0 |
| Com_call_procedure | 0 |
| Com_change_db | 2469 |
| Com_change_master | 0 |
| Com_check | 0 |
| Com_checksum | 0 |
| Com_commit | 0 |
| Com_create_db | 0 |
| Com_create_function | 0 |
| Com_create_index | 0 |
| Com_create_table | 2 |
| Com_create_user | 0 |
| Com_dealloc_sql | 0 |
| Com_delete | 206 |
| Com_delete_multi | 1 |
| Com_do | 0 |
| Com_drop_db | 0 |
| Com_drop_function | 0 |
| Com_drop_index | 0 |
| Com_drop_table | 2 |
| Com_drop_user | 0 |
| Com_execute_sql | 0 |
| Com_flush | 1 |
| Com_grant | 0 |
| Com_ha_close | 0 |
| Com_ha_open | 0 |
| Com_ha_read | 0 |
| Com_help | 0 |
| Com_insert | 694 |
| Com_insert_select | 2 |
| Com_kill | 0 |
| Com_load | 0 |
| Com_load_master_data | 0 |
| Com_load_master_table | 0 |
| Com_lock_tables | 23 |
| Com_optimize | 0 |
| Com_preload_keys | 0 |
| Com_prepare_sql | 0 |
| Com_purge | 0 |
| Com_purge_before_date | 0 |
| Com_rename_table | 0 |
| Com_repair | 0 |
| Com_replace | 76 |
| Com_replace_select | 0 |
| Com_reset | 0 |
| Com_restore_table | 0 |
| Com_revoke | 0 |
| Com_revoke_all | 0 |
| Com_rollback | 0 |
| Com_savepoint | 0 |
| Com_select | 10035 |
| Com_set_option | 38 |
| Com_show_binlog_events | 0 |
| Com_show_binlogs | 1 |
| Com_show_charsets | 3 |
| Com_show_collations | 3 |
| Com_show_column_types | 0 |
| Com_show_create_db | 0 |
| Com_show_create_table | 0 |
| Com_show_databases | 3 |
| Com_show_errors | 0 |
| Com_show_fields | 1 |
| Com_show_grants | 1 |
| Com_show_innodb_status | 0 |
| Com_show_keys | 0 |
| Com_show_logs | 0 |
| Com_show_master_status | 0 |
| Com_show_ndb_status | 0 |
| Com_show_new_master | 0 |
| Com_show_open_tables | 0 |
| Com_show_privileges | 0 |
| Com_show_processlist | 14 |
| Com_show_slave_hosts | 0 |
| Com_show_slave_status | 0 |
| Com_show_status | 1 |
| Com_show_storage_engines | 0 |
| Com_show_tables | 13 |
| Com_show_triggers | 0 |
| Com_show_variables | 14 |
| Com_show_warnings | 0 |
| Com_slave_start | 0 |
| Com_slave_stop | 0 |
| Com_stmt_close | 0 |
| Com_stmt_execute | 0 |
| Com_stmt_fetch | 0 |
| Com_stmt_prepare | 0 |
| Com_stmt_reset | 0 |
| Com_stmt_send_long_data | 0 |
| Com_truncate | 2 |
| Com_unlock_tables | 23 |
| Com_update | 2010 |
| Com_update_multi | 2 |
| Com_xa_commit | 0 |
| Com_xa_end | 0 |
| Com_xa_prepare | 0 |
| Com_xa_recover | 0 |
| Com_xa_rollback | 0 |
| Com_xa_start | 0 |
| Compression | OFF |
| Connections | 2535 |
| Created_tmp_disk_tables | 32 |
| Created_tmp_files | 2 |
| Created_tmp_tables | 1716 |
| Delayed_errors | 0 |
| Delayed_insert_threads | 0 |
| Delayed_writes | 0 |
| Flush_commands | 1 |
| Handler_commit | 0 |
| Handler_delete | 147 |
| Handler_discover | 0 |
| Handler_prepare | 0 |
| Handler_read_first | 2526 |
| Handler_read_key | 287997 |
| Handler_read_next | 643226 |
| Handler_read_prev | 15055 |
| Handler_read_rnd | 57489 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next | 2568344 |
| Handler_rollback | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint | 0 |
| Handler_savepoint_rollback | 0 |
| Handler_update | 2475 |
| Handler_write | 38787 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_dirty | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_free | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_misc | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_total | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_rnd | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_seq | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_reads | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_wait_free | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_write_requests | 0 |
| Innodb_data_fsyncs | 0 |
| Innodb_data_pending_fsyncs | 0 |
| Innodb_data_pending_reads | 0 |
| Innodb_data_pending_writes | 0 |
| Innodb_data_read | 0 |
| Innodb_data_reads | 0 |
| Innodb_data_writes | 0 |
| Innodb_data_written | 0 |
| Innodb_dblwr_pages_written | 0 |
| Innodb_dblwr_writes | 0 |
| Innodb_log_waits | 0 |
| Innodb_log_write_requests | 0 |
| Innodb_log_writes | 0 |
| Innodb_os_log_fsyncs | 0 |
| Innodb_os_log_pending_fsyncs | 0 |
| Innodb_os_log_pending_writes | 0 |
| Innodb_os_log_written | 0 |
| Innodb_page_size | 0 |
| Innodb_pages_created | 0 |
| Innodb_pages_read | 0 |
| Innodb_pages_written | 0 |
| Innodb_row_lock_current_waits | 0 |
| Innodb_row_lock_time | 0 |
| Innodb_row_lock_time_avg | 0 |
| Innodb_row_lock_time_max | 0 |
| Innodb_row_lock_waits | 0 |
| Innodb_rows_deleted | 0 |
| Innodb_rows_inserted | 0 |
| Innodb_rows_read | 0 |
| Innodb_rows_updated | 0 |
| Key_blocks_not_flushed | 0 |
| Key_blocks_unused | 98033 |
| Key_blocks_used | 9138 |
| Key_read_requests | 896798 |
| Key_reads | 9144 |
| Key_write_requests | 1562 |
| Key_writes | 1201 |
| Last_query_cost | 0.000000 |
| Max_used_connections | 4 |
| Ndb_cluster_node_id | 0 |
| Ndb_config_from_host | |
| Ndb_config_from_port | 0 |
| Ndb_number_of_data_nodes | 0 |
| Not_flushed_delayed_rows | 0 |
| Open_files | 493 |
| Open_streams | 0 |
| Open_tables | 252 |
| Opened_tables | 266 |
| Prepared_stmt_count | 0 |
| Qcache_free_blocks | 220 |
| Qcache_free_memory | 75157312 |
| Qcache_hits | 11987 |
| Qcache_inserts | 8598 |
| Qcache_lowmem_prunes | 0 |
| Qcache_not_cached | 1476 |
| Qcache_queries_in_cache | 1603 |
| Qcache_total_blocks | 3640 |
| Queries | 30150 |
| Questions | 30150 |
| Rpl_status | NULL |
| Select_full_join | 21 |
| Select_full_range_join | 0 |
| Select_range | 1664 |
| Select_range_check | 0 |
| Select_scan | 3253 |
| Slave_open_temp_tables | 0 |
| Slave_retried_transactions | 0 |
| Slave_running | OFF |
| Slow_launch_threads | 0 |
| Slow_queries | 0 |
| Sort_merge_passes | 1 |
| Sort_range | 1260 |
| Sort_rows | 217265 |
| Sort_scan | 2244 |
| Table_locks_immediate | 23426 |
| Table_locks_waited | 0 |
| Tc_log_max_pages_used | 0 |
| Tc_log_page_size | 0 |
| Tc_log_page_waits | 0 |
| Threads_cached | 3 |
| Threads_connected | 1 |
| Threads_created | 4 |
| Threads_running | 1 |
| Uptime | 4093 |
| Uptime_since_flush_status | 30150 |
+-----------------------------------+-----------+
Uptime: 4093 Threads: 1 Questions: 30151 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 266 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 252 Queries per second avg: 7.366
mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.81, for unknown-linux-gnu on x86_64
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 MySQL AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

Server version 5.0.81-community
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 1 hour 8 min 13 sec

Threads: 1 Questions: 30151 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 266 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 252 Queries per second avg: 7.366
+------+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+------+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 2534 | root | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist |
+------+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
9. No, 9 sites. 2 sites using vbulletin, 3 sites on Zencart and the rest just HTML and Flash.

10. 150 users, timeout is setup to 900.

11. http://www.bikerunderworld.com/phpinfo.php

12.
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

13. no

14.
Linux server.ceghosting.com 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Quote:
Linux server.ceghosting.com 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 10:35:59 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@server [~]#
root@server [~]# ulimit -aH
core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 38912
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 38912
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
Quote:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2000.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6337.25
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2000.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 6333.32
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: