I have a wordpress installation which has over 5000 posts in it. For the last few days, the database is loading very slowly. I have used the database optimization plugin as well as optimized db tables from back end. But still the issue exist. After I restart the MySQL server everything seems to work just fine. The same issue exists for my other website which is a Joomla installation on another server(Amazon) and has over 50,000 articles. Even here I regularly do database optimization but still the pages load very slowly. Sometimes to over 1 minute. There is page cache on both the sites, still I am getting this issue. There are other websites also running on the same server but they are relatively new and less content compared to these two sites, they load very fast. The problem is with these two websites only.
Check out:
Connection pool. Maybe you're running out of connections and get bottlenecked
Server's cache
slow queries audit
... this are just hints, to get real help you should indicate more system performance's info
I'm not sure about the Wordpress site configuration settings, but for Joomla, if you are not already running MySQLi, I would recommend enabling in in the Global Configuration. Try clearing the site cache and if you are running on Joomla 1.5, then if possible, upgrade to Joomla 2.5 as it is a little faster when running queries. In the end, it might just be due to the fact that you are on a shared host, so if you are willing to, a VPS server would speed things up.
There can be many reason for the same like : "Hosting Server Issue (use dedicated server for such sites)" , "Use good cache plugin availabe for joomla & wordpress" , "Use db optimize plugins"
You can also refer to following sites -
http://www.sparringmind.com/speed-up-wordpress/
http://wpmu.org/too-many-wordpress-plugins/
http://www.joomlaperformance.com/articles/performance/so_you_want_to_speed_up_joomla_3_14.html
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I have a java / spring / hibernate app running with connections to a MySQL db.
We recently upgraded from 5.6 to 5.7 (on a Windows server) and the app has gone from taking 3 hours to 3 days to complete. It essentially uses hibernate connections to retrieve read only data from the db before processing it and dumping the result elsewhere.
However as a first step, partly to check it was the upgraded version that is causing the problem, I installed 5.7.21 on my dev machine. I then noticed that even doing a db restore took several hours rather than what used to take about 10 minutes on 5.6. This has lead me to believe it may be more of a config issue than 'drivers' being out of date (I did think my first step was going to be upgrading app dependencies). I didn't install the server but I installed my dev machine with a default 'developer' install. Both the server and the dev machine are 64 bit Windows.
I've had a scoot around for obvious gotchas and not found anything yet. I just wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction before I start seriously thrashing about ? I have a good basic understanding of out of the box MySQL but I haven't done much config so even pointers to likely suspects in my.ini and best ways to investigate would be helpful.
When upgrading, pay attention to innodb_buffer_pool_size variable value.
It controls how much memory MySQL uses to make I/O operations faster. Usually, this is the one that makes it fly or that makes it crawl like a snail. There's a lot to be written about this particular variable, there's a plethora of excellent blog posts about it so I'll avoid explaining it into detail.
To see the current value, type in MySQL terminal:
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%innodb_buffer_pool%';
Change the value in config file and restart MySQL.
For the value, don't go overboard, don't exceed your entire RAM. You want it as high as possible, especially for servers with a lot of data.
My server got stucked last night because of database connection error.
I investigated it is caused by too many database connections. After a research from google and stackoverflow, I didn't get any useful information. While I am trying to investigate all plugins one by one to see if any of them has a bug or something did this, I would like to ask your helps..
First of all, when I logged in to MySQL I can see a lot of SLEEP queries with NULL info there. I tried to use command line to kill all sleep queries but there still more requests fill all connections right away.
The weird thing is, the apache server is not actually getting high volumn of requests. I am actually using AWS RDS as my database server so the apache and mysql is not on same server. The RDS server doesn't have public access so I am sure all requests are only from my apache server. The cpu usage on apache server is not high. Also, I searched the apache's access_log there are not a lot requests at that time. And I cannot find anything wrong with these requests. Especially there is no requests is performing injection attack. I think it is possible some thing triggered in the code so I searched 'SLEEP' in all my code but can only find some in the w3 total cache plugin, which the code blocks in this plugin is not easily get reached..I turned off the XML-RPC in apache level so it shouldn't be the XML-RPC attack.
I know there are a lots of possibility since I am using about twenty plugins in my site, but it is really weird I cannot find any possible requests caused this on apache level. Is it possible any requests can hit the server without being recorded in access_log?
I am pretty new to configure apache and mysql on my own and still learning these features..Thanks in advance for helping me!
We have a 2GB Digital Ocean server, and it is dedicated for a MySQL server of other two PHP servers. we are using Percona MySQL Server 5.6 on this server. We configured MySQL replication and these configuration is working fine
Our issue is sometime our site monitoring tools reporting that some of the URL hosted with this server is down (May be this is happening once in a week or two). When I am checking, I could see that Mysql Master server load is too much high (May be 35 - 40), so the MySQL server was not responded. # that I usually do a MySQl service restart, this restart cause to server load become normal and the sites started working after service restart.
This is a back-end MySQL database server of 20-25 PHP applications (WordPress, Drupal and some custom applications server).
Here are my questions,
Why this server load automatically goes down, after a spikes happens?
Is there any way in which database is causing issues? So that I can identify the application too.
How can I identify the root cause of this issues
Depending upon your working dataset, a 2GB server providing access for 20-25 PHP applications (WordPress, Drupal and some custom applications server) could be the issue.
For example, if you have a 1.4GB buffer pool (assuming all tables are InnnoDB) and 10GB of data, then your various applications could end up competing for resources, such as I/O, buffer pool pages, Adaptive Hash Index, query cache. They could also, assuming caching is used, be invalidating theit caches within a similar timeframe, thus sending expensive queries to the database.
Whilst a load of 50 is something that you would normally want to avoid, the load average is not something that you should concern yourself with if showing in isolation.
The use of the uninterruptible state has since grown in the Linux
kernel, and nowadays includes uninterruptible lock primitives. If the
load average is a measure of demand in terms of running and waiting
threads (and not strictly threads wanting hardware resources), then
they are still working the way we want them to.
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html
If the issue is happening once per week then it is starting to sound like a batch process, or cache expiration issue - too much happening at once for the resources available.
The best thing to do is to monitor and look for the cause. Since you are already using Percona Server, using PMM should give you the perfect insight to find the cause, although it works with Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Aurora, etc. You can try a demo to see the insights that you can gain:
https://pmmdemo.percona.com. The software is Open Source and free to use.
You can look in QAN to find the most expensive queries, whilst looking at Prometheus data to give an insight into the host itself. There are some recommendations to get the most from PMM, depending upon your flavour of MySQL.
I have a wordpress 3.5.1 site that's getting a little bit of traffic (80 concurrent visitors, ~5 clicks/pageviews per second). The site runs fine until it spikes to ~85 visitors. There are usually 4 admins logged in at the same time. The site has 8 custom post types--Posts has 3500 posts, and Press Releases (a custom post type) has 13000 posts. All of this is paginated on the site, so there are never more than 20 posts showing on any one page.
The only plugins I'm using are wp-pagenavi and w3totalcache.
I set WP_DEBUG_LOG to true and logged the errors. The main error I'm getting (besides various notices and warnings unrelated to this issue) is mysql has reached the max_user_connections limit.
My current max_user_connections is set to 75. I tried to set it higher, but the cpu can't handle the load (4 Quad Core CPUs at 2.17GHz each and 4GB of RAM).
What could be causing so many connections?
I've viewed the mysql processes running when the errors happened and there are many connections that say "SLEEPING" or "SLEEP" (probably 15-20). I also noticed via the process logs that httpd is restarting quite often during the peak traffic times.
Any ideas on how to resolve the issue?
NOTE: Please do not respond if your answer is to check my wp-config.php file and make sure my username, password, and host are correct. This is NOT the issue. The site works fine under normal traffic.
The database server is dropping out due to high loads. What's in the error logs? What's the size of the database? Have you used mysqltuner.pl to check the query load and caching settings for the MySQL server in my.cnf? https://github.com/rackerhacker/MySQLTuner-perl
WordPress can really bog down the database with many post/page revisions. Delete them with a plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revision-control/ I've dropped databases to 10% of their original size with a resulting huge increase in performance.
I'm working on debugging a slowness issue I've got with running ExpressionEngine (a PHP application) on IIS 7.
I don't think this is actually an issue with ExpressionEngine, but rather an issue with my PHP/MySQL setup.
The problem shows itself thusly:
Go to webite address
IE "spins" for 10-15 seconds, waiting to load. During this time:
processor usage is minimal on the server, and PHP's process is inactive
I see a connection for the site user in MySQL, but the thread is in "sleeping" more.
There is plenty of free memory on the server
pretty much, the server is doing nothing
After 10-15 seconds, I see the connection MySQL run some really quick queries (very fast) and the site loads in under a second.
This is a fairly complex site, but it doesn't make any sense that the whole system is just sitting there waiting for 10 seconds - not processing anything. I'm using FastCGI on IIS7, which seems to be working fine, and to me this seems like some sort of a timeout issue where FastCGI, PHP, or maybe even MySQL is waiting for something, not getting it, and after the timeout occurs, continuing to process.
Anyone had similar experiences?
Thanks!
P.S. - I should also add that the database (MySQL) and PHP are running on the same server.
mysql might be trying to do a reverse DNS on the connection from the web server. if you don't need to filter mysql connections by DNS name, then add skip-name-resolve to your mysql configuration file
Twitter plugins cause lots of issues in CMS systems. usually there is a function that checks if twitter is there/alive. When twitter gets busy, this slows down the system (thats why it can appear as intermittent) Find the twitter plugin, and the routine that checks if twitter is there. Comment out this code and return true (ie. don't ask twitter if it is there, just assume it is)
I have no idea why, but the solution to this was to install PHP 5.3. I had PHP 5.2.10 running, and I guess 5.3 added some extensive optimizations for Windows. Or fixed some other weird problem - who knows.
Actually, after some further digging, it appears the problem was with the Twitter plugin. It waits 25 seconds to come back from Twitter sometime with an error. Maybe this is related to the DNS?