Server optimisation request
 

1. Shared virtual server.

They only told me "there are few virtual private servers present on this hardware node".

2. Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz
Processor #1 speed: 2133.413 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 4096 KB
Apache: 1.3.41
PHP: 4.4.7
MySQL: 4.1.22

3. vBulletin 3.7.4

4. Don't know.

5. Don't know.

6.
Quote:
top - 20:49:55 up 3 days, 6:44, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 1.40, 1.63
Tasks: 95 total, 1 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu0 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu1 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu2 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu3 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 4037108k total, 875144k used, 3161964k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached
7. Quote:
[mysqld]
skip-bdb
skip-innodb
set-variable = max_connections=700
safe-show-database
8. Quote:
|
| time_zone | SYSTEM |
| tmp_table_size | 33554432 |
| tmpdir | |
| transaction_alloc_block_size | 8192 |
| transaction_prealloc_size | 4096 |
| tx_isolation | REPEATABLE-READ |
| version | 4.1.22-standard |
| version_comment | MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL) |
| version_compile_machine | i686 |
| version_compile_os | pc-linux-gnu |
| wait_timeout | 28800 |
+---------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
+----------------------------+------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------------+------------+
| Aborted_clients | 0 |
| Aborted_connects | 296 |
| Binlog_cache_disk_use | 0 |
| Binlog_cache_use | 0 |
| Bytes_received | 1737533057 |
| Bytes_sent | 1253047893 |
| Com_admin_commands | 2142 |
| Com_alter_db | 0 |
| Com_alter_table | 5 |
| Com_analyze | 0 |
| Com_backup_table | 0 |
| Com_begin | 0 |
| Com_change_db | 707955 |
| Com_change_master | 0 |
| Com_check | 1564 |
| Com_checksum | 0 |
| Com_commit | 0 |
| Com_create_db | 0 |
| Com_create_function | 0 |
| Com_create_index | 0 |
| Com_create_table | 157 |
| Com_dealloc_sql | 0 |
| Com_delete | 22536 |
| Com_delete_multi | 79 |
| Com_do | 0 |
| Com_drop_db | 0 |
| Com_drop_function | 0 |
| Com_drop_index | 0 |
| Com_drop_table | 157 |
| Com_drop_user | 0 |
| Com_execute_sql | 0 |
| Com_flush | 0 |
| Com_grant | 0 |
| Com_ha_close | 0 |
| Com_ha_open | 0 |
| Com_ha_read | 0 |
| Com_help | 0 |
| Com_insert | 150002 |
| Com_insert_select | 157 |
| Com_kill | 0 |
| Com_load | 0 |
| Com_load_master_data | 0 |
| Com_load_master_table | 0 |
| Com_lock_tables | 1295 |
| Com_optimize | 48 |
| 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 | 13255 |
| 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 | 5916513 |
| Com_set_option | 651 |
| Com_show_binlog_events | 0 |
| Com_show_binlogs | 4 |
| Com_show_charsets | 20 |
| Com_show_collations | 20 |
| Com_show_column_types | 0 |
| Com_show_create_db | 0 |
| Com_show_create_table | 0 |
| Com_show_databases | 21 |
| Com_show_errors | 0 |
| Com_show_fields | 191 |
| Com_show_grants | 8 |
| Com_show_innodb_status | 0 |
| Com_show_keys | 2 |
| 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 | 945 |
| Com_show_slave_hosts | 0 |
| Com_show_slave_status | 0 |
| Com_show_status | 1 |
| Com_show_storage_engines | 0 |
| Com_show_tables | 131 |
| Com_show_variables | 75 |
| Com_show_warnings | 0 |
| Com_slave_start | 0 |
| Com_slave_stop | 0 |
| Com_stmt_close | 0 |
| Com_stmt_execute | 0 |
| Com_stmt_prepare | 0 |
| Com_stmt_reset | 0 |
| Com_stmt_send_long_data | 0 |
| Com_truncate | 159 |
| Com_unlock_tables | 1295 |
| Com_update | 473959 |
| Com_update_multi | 158 |
| Connections | 557550 |
| Created_tmp_disk_tables | 19417 |
| Created_tmp_files | 456 |
| Created_tmp_tables | 239794 |
| Delayed_errors | 0 |
| Delayed_insert_threads | 0 |
| Delayed_writes | 0 |
| Flush_commands | 1 |
| Handler_commit | 0 |
| Handler_delete | 67024 |
| Handler_discover | 0 |
| Handler_read_first | 1035682 |
| Handler_read_key | 91015836 |
| Handler_read_next | 306967214 |
| Handler_read_prev | 3831403 |
| Handler_read_rnd | 35508241 |
| Handler_read_rnd_next | 551196457 |
| Handler_rollback | 0 |
| Handler_update | 620847 |
| Handler_write | 29680368 |
| Key_blocks_not_flushed | 0 |
| Key_blocks_unused | 3848 |
| Key_blocks_used | 7248 |
| Key_read_requests | 277012409 |
| Key_reads | 2971949 |
| Key_write_requests | 567199 |
| Key_writes | 363166 |
| Max_used_connections | 139 |
| Not_flushed_delayed_rows | 0 |
| Open_files | 120 |
| Open_streams | 0 |
| Open_tables | 64 |
| Opened_tables | 137629 |
| Qcache_free_blocks | 0 |
| Qcache_free_memory | 0 |
| Qcache_hits | 0 |
| Qcache_inserts | 0 |
| Qcache_lowmem_prunes | 0 |
| Qcache_not_cached | 0 |
| Qcache_queries_in_cache | 0 |
| Qcache_total_blocks | 0 |
| Questions | 7850468 |
| Rpl_status | NULL |
| Select_full_join | 66 |
| Select_full_range_join | 26 |
| Select_range | 1878957 |
| Select_range_check | 0 |
| Select_scan | 1858457 |
| Slave_open_temp_tables | 0 |
| Slave_retried_transactions | 0 |
| Slave_running | OFF |
| Slow_launch_threads | 6 |
| Slow_queries | 42 |
| Sort_merge_passes | 228 |
| Sort_range | 479610 |
| Sort_rows | 50320265 |
| Sort_scan | 154690 |
| Table_locks_immediate | 9349832 |
| Table_locks_waited | 5805 |
| Threads_cached | 0 |
| Threads_connected | 3 |
| Threads_created | 557549 |
| Threads_running | 1 |
| Uptime | 283602 |
+----------------------------+------------+
Uptime: 283602 Threads: 4 Questions: 7850476 Slow queries: 42 Opens: 137629 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 27.681
mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 4.1.22, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult 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 4.1.22-standard
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 3 days 6 hours 46 min 42 sec

Threads: 4 Questions: 7850476 Slow queries: 42 Opens: 137629 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 27.681
+--------+--------------+-----------+-------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+--------+--------------+-----------+-------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 554864 | talkcelt_xmb | localhost | talkcelt_vb | Sleep | 762 | | |
| 557279 | eximstats | localhost | eximstats | Sleep | 64 | | |
| 557549 | root | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist |
| 557551 | talkcelt_xmb | localhost | talkcelt_vb | Sleep | 0 | | |
+--------+--------------+-----------+-------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
9. vB + vBSEO

10. 400 users average (150 logged in) 3600 seconds

11. http://www.talkceltic.net/phpinfo.php

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

13. -

14. Quote:
Linux server.celticbhoy0.co.uk 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.028stab053.4 #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 12:29:44 MSK 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Quote:
core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
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
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 : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2133.413
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
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 est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4269.78
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 : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2133.413
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
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 est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4266.76
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2133.413
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
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 est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4266.74
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 3
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3210 @ 2.13GHz
stepping : 11
cpu MHz : 2133.413
cache size : 4096 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
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 est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4266.74
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:[/quote]