[ic] Time for new hardware?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 13:12:15 UTC 2016


>>>> I've been making a lot of optimizations lately and I think I'm to the
>>>> point where my 4 cores just aren't able to keep up with demand during
>>>> peak traffic hours each day.  Pages load quickly when I see fewer than
>>>> 4 busy interchange processes in top but things slow down drastically
>>>> after that.  Once I'm OK with the degree of optimization my ITL pages
>>>> have undergone and I'm not IO-bound or memory-bound, is it time to
>>>> throw CPU at the problem?
>>>>
>>>> I'm a little puzzled because I've seen my server perform much better
>>>> under much greater loads in the past.  I thought my growing mysql
>>>> tables could be the problem so I set up indexes and it has helped but
>>>> my server still struggles under loads it used to handle without issue.
>>>> I did notice that my tables are split about 50/50 between InnoDB and
>>>> MyISAM and I'd like to make all of them InnoDB.
>>>>
>>>> - Grant
>>>
>>> Yeah, I would recommend to switch all them to InnoDB for consistency
>>> and real transactions.
>>>
>>> You probably can find sufficient resources on MySQL optimization with
>>> InnoDB if that is your bottleneck.
>>
>>
>> Actually IO doesn't seem to be a bottleneck at this point.  It seems
>> to be CPU as things slow down once I have 4 busy interchange processes
>> on my quad-core CPU and iotop does not show much activity at that
>> point.  Besides ITL optimization, is this a clear case of needing a
>> faster CPU and more cores or is there anything else to consider first?
>>
>>
>>> May I ask which webserver you are using?
>>
>>
>> I'm using nginx reverse proxied to apache2.
>
> Did you consider to get rid of Apache?


I'm certainly planning to do that but if I watch top it looks like my
apache2 processes *barely* get above idle even when the web server is
under heavy load.  The interchange processes get hammered.

- Grant



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