By wwwoliondorcom on

Huge memory usage on Dreamhost VPS, how to find which module causes troubles ?

Hi,

I have the same problem, how can i find what is the module that uses too much memory on my dreamhost virtual private server ?

Website has a lot of traffic but no more than before and suddenly thousands of errors everyday when i haven't changed a single module, so what's wrong ?

Thanks.

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wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

Hello,

What i like with dreamhost PS is that they take care about everything.

Can you advice me any dedicated server easy to use for someone who knows nothing about servers ?

I want somebody to repair when it breaks, is there any company selling dedicated servers with a support as reliable as dreamhost one? (at least they reply fast!)

I want to move because my websites are not optimized and even set up at 4000 MB my websites show thousand of errors pages everyday, so better get 8GB dedicated for the same price as dreamhost 4GB PS !

Thanks for your help.

aklouie’s picture

aklouie commented

I to use Dreamhost VPS, and while I don't have heavy sites, I haven't experienced anything going nuts to that degree.

Have you looked at the cache technologies to reduce the load on your sites? Cache Router or Boost? In the shell, use Top to check to see which site is burning up the memory and how it's being used, or even if it's your site. I had an issue before where it was a dreamhost script that was eating memory galore because of a misconfiguration on their side (I shifted to Lighttpd with an insufficient amount of memory allocated to the VPS, so it kept restarting the script repeatedly)

wwwoliondorcom’s picture

wwwoliondorcom commented

Hello,

Yes I am using Boost but still I have errors.

Dreamhost is supposed to change the machine, so i will see what happens.

Can you tell me if using Lighttpd is ok with Drupal and if it could be useful for me? Any problem ?

Thanks.

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doublejosh commented

I'd love to try Lighttpd on Dreamhost with my Drupal install, but seems like I'll have to create another account to test it :(