Server memory resource

New Member Joined: May 07, 2004 Posts: 9

Hello,
The company hosting my site ask me why I use so much server memory resource (9%). I don't know.
What could use a lot of memory in a php site.
Googlebot? Amazon crawler? Monitor?
Thanks
Alain
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registered · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 11:26 am

Just not a very good host I would think. Laughing

When you say monitor, do you mean ms analysis? You can have that module update via a cron job to save resources.

If they say your site is a resource hog, I would love to see what they had to say if I was hosting my site there.

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 12:13 pm

Not Ms Analysis but Monitor 2.5 from Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 4:15 pm

If you search the forums here you'll find some speed tweaks for phpnuke and reference to Karakas site for more info regarding caching.

Basically I'd say the biggest thing is the User Info block unless your using a recently updated one. I'm not sure where there is one actually so be sure to search for the thread. 118 DB Queries is a little high try and cut that in half. Will keep your host from booting you.

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 5:22 pm

if you have googletap, it uses a lot of resourses too, and NC knew of this and placed a script on their server to combat this which restarted apache every few minutes I think it was. I did get a copy of it at one time, but really would only be useful if you were on a dedicated server, I dont think your host would place it there otherwise. If I come across it on my drives tho, I will post it here. Not sure what Raven uses here, or if he has that problem or not. I also have not tried googletap since moving to a dedicated duel xeon server (but site flies Laughing

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Other than that, I turfed googletap a long time ago, and google STILL indexes and lists my articles and forums, even with their long URL's Shocked

Mick

Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 8:06 pm

Ok Thanks, I will loose googletap.

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 3:11 am

tour93, you dont appear to have googletap anyway. I checked for it when I looked at your site after you 1st made the post.

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 7:51 am

LMAO thats what I thought too. I would caution against removing it anyway. There is significant evidence google will penalize your site for all the urls being changed without a doubt. Maybe weening off it would be a better method? Remove one area a month or something?

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 7:59 am

tour93 I haven't messed with that Amazon module but it could be that too. Does this one use caching? If not I'd look for one that has that ability.

Its really hard to work it out for you because you have what you want I'm sure. But now we are saying you should change some of it to reduce the number of queries being run on the homepage.

I'd just go through and run some tests to see what is using the most queries then we can work on how to improve the biggest resource monsters. But even the pageload and queries code in your footer are another one... but I'd leave that for now because it gives a simple method to benchmark for your testing.

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 10:13 am

What about using jpcache? is it good?

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 11:01 am

I've used it with mixed results but its been a while since I did. It is nice because it requires very little code basically a one liner and its installed.

The trouble I had was with some image corruption but maybe that has been worked out in the mean time. If I remember it was only with certain image types maybe only png images?

Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 3:53 pm

Ok thanks very much. I will try it and see.

Update: Cache _Lite is even better.