VPS Server Load 6.0-8.0!

[TheInsaneManiac]

My host told me about 3 days ago that someone on my VPS was abusing their memory and it was causing me to jump, but today I get an email saying I've also been using excessive amounts of memory. My server load is anywhere from 6.0 to 8.0 when it's suppose to be in the .XX region. It's retarded I have disabled all of my heavy mods, no shoutbox, and barely any members are on. Is my host lying to me to get me to upgrade or is something wrong? I haven't added any new modifications within the past week or two. Here's my debug info. Let me know if you need any other info as I need this problem solved.

* Page Generation 18.85189 seconds
* Memory Usage 8,096KB
* Queries Executed 10 (?)

More Information
Template Usage:

* (1)FORUMHOME
* (1)ad_footer_end
* (1)ad_footer_start
* (1)ad_forumhome_afterforums
* (1)ad_header_end
* (1)ad_header_logo
* (1)ad_navbar_below
* (1)cyb_lastxhoursvisitors
* (1)footer
* (1)forumhome_birthdaybit
* (109)forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
* (212)forumhome_lastpostby
* (19)forumhome_loggedinuser
* (1)forumhome_markread_script
* (81)forumhome_subforumbit_post
* (1)forumhome_subforumseparator_post
* (1)gobutton
* (1)header
* (1)headinclude
* (1)navbar
* (9)navbar_notifications_menubit
* (1)nick_announce
* (9)option
* (1)spacer_close
* (1)spacer_open
* (1)vbplaza_navbar_buttons_left
* (1)vbplaza_usercp_navbar_bottom

Phrase Groups Available:

* global
* holiday
* modpm_text
* modpm_title


Included Files:

* ./index.php
* ./global.php
* ./includes/init.php
* ./includes/class_core.php
* ./includes/config.php
* ./includes/functions.php
* ./includes/class_datastore.php
* ./includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php
* ./includes/class_hook.php
* ./vbplaza/includes/functions.php
* ./vbplaza/includes/plugins_global.php
* ./includes/functions_tfseo.php
* ./includes/functions_tfseo_type_2_1.php
* ./includes/class_activecache.php
* ./includes/class_activecache_methods.php
* ./includes/class_activecache_vbadvanced.php
* ./includes/functions_notice.php
* ./includes/functions_bigthree.php
* ./includes/functions_forumlist.php
* ./includes/functions_calendar.php

Hooks Called:

* init_startup
* fetch_userinfo_query
* fetch_musername
* vbplaza_build_username_style_complete
* vbplaza_build_usertitle_style_complete
* fetch_userinfo
* cache_permissions
* style_fetch
* cache_templates
* global_start
* parse_templates
* notices_check_start
* notices_check_criteria
* notifications_list
* global_setup_complete
* forumhome_start
* cache_ordered_forums
* forumbit_display
* forumbit_subforumbit
* forumbit_subforumbit2
* forumhome_complete
* forumhome_loggedinuser_query
* forumhome_loggedinuser

[Zachery]

What are the stats on your VPS that you've been allocated?

[TheInsaneManiac]

First option:
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/vps_hosting.html

I've never had this problem though. I've had these mods for months! I even disabled ALL plugins globally and my load is 2.92. Heres the debug info for that.

* Page Generation 1.35543 seconds
* Memory Usage 5,664KB
* Queries Executed 9 (?)

More Information
Template Usage:

* (1)FORUMHOME
* (1)ad_footer_end
* (1)ad_footer_start
* (1)ad_forumhome_afterforums
* (1)ad_header_end
* (1)ad_header_logo
* (1)ad_navbar_below
* (1)footer
* (1)forumhome_birthdaybit
* (109)forumhome_forumbit_level2_post
* (106)forumhome_lastpostby
* (12)forumhome_loggedinuser
* (1)forumhome_markread_script
* (81)forumhome_subforumbit_post
* (1)forumhome_subforumseparator_post
* (1)gobutton
* (1)header
* (1)headinclude
* (1)navbar
* (9)navbar_notifications_menubit
* (9)option
* (1)spacer_close
* (1)spacer_open

Phrase Groups Available:

* global
* holiday

[Shamil.]

Can you use SSH, and post the contents of the "top" command?

[TheInsaneManiac]

top - 13:34:51 up 17:36, 1 user, load average: 0.54, 0.90, 1.32
Tasks: 80 total, 1 running, 77 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.4% us, 0.8% sy, 0.8% ni, 96.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1048576k total, 167768k used, 880808k free, 0k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 0k cached


PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15513 imhxx 35 19 34964 32m 1520 S 5.7 3.2 5:36.46 perl-bin
3604 mysql 16 0 188m 37m 4612 S 1.3 3.7 3:01.51 mysqld
30068 nobody 15 0 10068 3856 2160 S 0.7 0.4 0:00.03 httpd
1 root 15 0 1640 600 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.19 init
13928 root 16 0 1544 512 428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.20 syslogd
13933 root 19 0 1484 376 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd
13943 root 15 0 1468 380 324 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
13944 root 16 0 1828 596 488 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 authdaemond
13952 root 16 0 1828 360 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
13953 root 15 0 1828 360 240 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 authdaemond
17976 root 16 0 4052 1040 748 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd
17990 root 18 0 2108 800 672 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 xinetd
18132 root 16 0 4472 2912 1180 S 0.0 0.3 0:01.51 perl-bin
18146 root 20 0 1472 312 260 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
18147 root 18 0 1580 476 400 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd
18154 root 18 0 1472 312 260 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 courierlogger
18155 root 18 0 1580 476 400 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 couriertcpd

The "nobody" user has been popping up a lot lately. Load seems to be down now for some reason.

[Shamil.]

The imhxx process is intruiging me. Do you have any other processes running that you know of, such as a shoutcast server?

I have never heard of process imhxx before.

[TheInsaneManiac]

The imhxx process is intruiging me. Do you have any other processes running that you know of, such as a shoutcast server?

I have never heard of process imhxx before.
Thats my username for the server. I login with that. Only I blocked out the numbers used with x.

[Shamil.]

Thats my username for the server. I login with that. Only I blocked out the numbers used with x.

sorry, I misread the table, what are you doing with perl?

[TheInsaneManiac]

sorry, I misread the table, what are you doing with perl?
Nothing?

[Shamil.]

Nothing?

Then why is it running ;o

[Zachery]

Then why is it running ;o
cPanel probably.


Consider upgrading to 512mb. 256mb isnt enough to even run apache, mysql and the cpanel stuff you do have.

[Shamil.]

cPanel probably.


Consider upgrading to 512mb. 256mb isnt enough to even run apache, mysql and the cpanel stuff you do have.

cPanel still doesn't use that much RAM and CPU when opened 5 times :/

[TheInsaneManiac]

Here's an updated top command. MySQL shows a 9 minute run time. I guess thats good, but still posting just in case.
32488 mysql 16 0 185m 39m 4804 S 10.9 3.9 10:06.65 mysqld
18088 imhxx 17 0 30000 16m 5932 R 9.7 1.6 0:00.52 php
18075 imhxx 17 0 29988 16m 5932 R 9.3 1.6 0:00.52 php
18298 imhxx 20 0 26864 13m 5600 R 8.4 1.3 0:00.26 php
17932 imhxx 20 0 30776 17m 5968 R 8.0 1.7 0:00.80 php
17650 imhxx 16 0 0 0 0 Z 7.7 0.0 0:01.04 php <defunct>
18115 imhxx 20 0 24396 10m 5440 R 5.1 1.1 0:00.21 php
17857 cpanelph 16 0 17768 9.9m 3744 R 3.5 1.0 0:00.76 php-cgi
18066 imhxx 21 0 28648 15m 5780 R 3.5 1.5 0:00.40 php
18312 imhxx 18 0 19392 3872 2964 R 1.6 0.4 0:00.05 php
26345 imhxx 16 0 1908 984 772 R 0.6 0.1 0:01.17 top
32319 nobody 15 0 10072 3888 2164 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.10 httpd
3126 nobody 15 0 10072 3892 2176 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.06 httpd
18308 imhxx 17 0 12724 444 296 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 php
1 root 16 0 1640 600 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.48 init
13928 root 16 0 1544 512 428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.56 syslogd
13933 root 19 0 1484 376 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd
32488 mysql 16 0 194m 49m 4804 S 24.6 4.8 9:32.36 mysqld
26345 imhxx 16 0 1908 972 768 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.56 top
30202 nobody 15 0 10072 3876 2172 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.03 httpd
30437 nobody 15 0 10072 3852 2156 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.04 httpd
1 root 16 0 1640 600 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.48 init
13928 root 16 0 1544 512 428 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.56 syslogd
13933 root 19 0 1484 376 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd
17990 root 18 0 2108 800 672 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 xinetd
18132 root 16 0 4472 2912 1180 S 0.0 0.3 0:04.05 perl-bin
20230 root 16 0 2496 908 520 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.34 crond
20408 root 16 0 5924 4304 1268 S 0.0 0.4 0:02.54 perl-bin
21949 root 16 0 4492 2912 1148 S 0.0 0.3 0:06.62 perl-bin
27841 root 16 0 12420 6844 484 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 perl-bin
27870 root 34 19 16140 12m 1852 S 0.0 1.2 0:32.01 perl-bin
28076 root 18 0 4084 800 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 saslauthd
28124 root 18 0 1500 388 316 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 portsentry
5450 root 16 0 16600 7784 1024 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.76 cpsrvd-ssl



cPanel probably.


Consider upgrading to 512mb. 256mb isnt enough to even run apache, mysql and the cpanel stuff you do have.
I shouldn't have to. Until a few days ago my site ran fine under .70 load, but now all of a sudden out of no where... It's in the 3.0 and 6.0s. Somethings not right. I have less members on than ever and yet somehow my load remains high.