Memory Leak – Swap space full after posting

  • Resolved jessedijkstra

    (@jessedijkstra)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    We’re currently running a multisite wordpress environment on a VPS at VPS.net. One of our websites, a blog that posts tests on a daily basis, seems to be the cause of our servers memory filling up. It has an average of 500 unique visitors a day and 1000 pageviews.

    After the daily post our server crashed. First the memory fills and then the swap space. After approx 2 minutes the server becomes unresponsive.

    The blog in question currently has the following URL structure: /%postname%/

    After checking plugins the only reason why the server crashes that I can think of is the URL structure.

    The server has 4 cores:
    – 2.5 GHz of dedicated CPU
    – 1.5 GB of RAM

    This should be sufficient to run a decent multisite environment to my knowledge.

    We’ve installed the following major plugins:
    – W3 Total Cache (caching with APC, minify for CSS disabled, MaxCDN for our content delivery network).
    – WordPress SEO by Yoast
    – Gravity Forms Pro
    – AddThis
    – Akismet
    – Analytics 360
    – Codestyling Localization
    – Clean Options
    – Events Manager
    – Lifestream
    – Lightbox 2
    – Mailchimp
    – Pretty Link Pro
    – Quotes Collection
    – Search and Replace
    – Sexy Bookmarks
    – Woopra
    – MU Domain Mapping
    – WP Smushit
    – WP Audio

    When the server crashes I get the following messages (as you can see swap space is full):

    May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: DMA: 76*4kB 2*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 4*4096kB = 19856kB
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: DMA32: empty
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: Normal: empty
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: HighMem: empty
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: 60612 pagecache pages
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: Swap cache: add 455831, delete 456009, find 31353/52926, race 1+13
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: Free swap  = 0kB
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: Total swap = 1048568kB
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: Free swap:            0kB
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: 6162432 pages of RAM
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: 123639 reserved pages
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: 17405 pages shared
May 25 03:07:48 vps1 kernel: 19 pages swap cached
May 25 03:09:01 vps1 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.

    Because PHP doesn’t give any feedback on why my swap space is filling up I don’t know whether it’s a server configuration problem or a faulty plugin or a wordpress problem.

    Anyone any ideas?

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  • The blog in question currently has the following URL structure: /%postname%/

    Got a lot of pages as well?

    ALso, you listed the major plugins – got any to do with cross posting or pulling feeds in & out?

    Thread Starter jessedijkstra

    (@jessedijkstra)

    Not a lot of pages (6), just a lot of posts and actually listed all the plugins we use (got the server back up to look which ones we were using).

    We switch to Litespeed and I recompiled PHP so I might’ve fixed it. (we will only know when we hit another traffic spike etc).

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The ones you use or the ones you have installed? Even inactive plugins can use memory if they don’t turn off cleanly.

    .. and anything in mu-plugins.

    Thread Starter jessedijkstra

    (@jessedijkstra)

    Posted all the plugins we have installed.

    The problem seems to have been resolved when we switched to Litespeed. Might’ve messed up something during the PHP compilation. Too bad I’ll never know…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Might’ve messed up something during the PHP compilation.

    Been there, done that, manually fixed my php.ini file last month :/

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