VbDrupal Server Tuning Needed...

[tomk]

Hey,

We recently converted our site to VbDrupal and put it on a new server... a dual xeon 2.8ghz / 4gigs of RAM, 2x80 gig HDs, running CentOS with Cpanel... Our traffic at the moment is ~12,000 visitors a day, with 750 in a peak hour (avg page views per visit is ~14). With this relatively lower traffic, we were at nearly double that not too long ago, the server load during peak times is rarely lower then 2-3.

We are currently using outsourced server admin support... but they have been unable to provide any real assistance unless it is a textbook problem... Their latest suggestion was: "more RAM may help, let us know if you need further assistance"... :S

The URL of the website being hosted is http://www.sexinfo101.com...

Please PM me if you are interested with rates and overview of the job...

thank you,

Tom

[sifuhall]

A quick suggestion is to make sure your vbulletin is using UTF-8 (see here: http://vbdrupal.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1082&highlight=utf-8).

This can reduce the number of queries executed on some pages by nearly half.

[tomk]

Thanks sifuhall, but I believe the problem is on the drupal side... will look into this though.

In case it helps, we are also seeing:

We have been getting the "white screen of death" and have been thus dealing with it by upping the mem limit in php.ini... since we are now at 64 megs, I think we'll have to restart the server if it happens again... the white screen is only on the drupal side, vbulletin still shows up fine...

Another problem is that only about 1/4 of the registrations, managed by vbulletin, are making their way into the drupal user table... their id's are correct, but the majority is missing...

Our admins said:
- it looks like mysql is not being closed properly...
- there may be a problem with eaccellerator and drupal....