server running slow

[alin19]

i have a server that is running very slow starting a few days ago;

 

the server stands on :

4 GB af ram memory;

2 xeon 3.0;

 

max amounth of users conected are 250;

and those users recive some data onces on 5 seconds;

 

running top comand in the terminal shows that ram memory free is abouth 2GB and abouth 60-80 % of those processors is not used;

 

i'm trying to find out why is this hapening;

 

i have some suspicions:

 

first of all i see that the log file in apache/log/acces_log has abouth 14 GB

 

i can't delete that file wright now because the server is online;

can you help me and tell me what should i look for except this file that could make my server run slower?

 

 

 

[corbin]

14GB log file?  Damn!  Stop the server, do something with the log file, and restart it.  Takes 3 seconds.

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#keepalive

and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#keepalivetimeout

 

 

Are probably your problems.

 

 

You may also want to look into the MaxNumberClients and MaxThreads directives.  (Or something like that.  You can use google if those aren't the correct names ;p.)

[alin19]

i think that there you are corect with those maxThreads and keepalive;

 

 

i have made a script that counts the number of httpd services that are opened; and it can't run ofer 259