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I could use some ideas from awesome minds on what could be going on with a growing issue on my web server. It's a dedicated server with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM, of which most of it is not affected during the issues I'm having.
When I first started using my web server with Parallels installed, I could make a decently timed backup of my 5GB website via Parallels Plesk Panel 11.0.9. I just checked all the boxes in a directory via the File Manager interface and all was combined into a .zip I could download. Today, I tried the same thing on my growing 8.6GB website, and it seems to hang on the page forever, SLOWLY archiving the site using 50% of a single CPU from what I can tell. At the same time, websites stop being delivered with an internal server error shown in web browsers.
Separate from Plesk, if I ssh in and run gzip on the site folder, I get the same effect. Early this morning I also started receiving website performance alerts when a virus scan was in progress.
Any thoughts on what could be causing Apache to behave like this? Could it be fighting with other processes or just stepping back for any process to take over? Could there be a directory that doesn't like to be backed up while Apache is running e.g. a log file or something (didn't see anything huge where logs were stored, separate from website files folder)?
I'd be interested to know what you think. I can't seem to reproduce this issue on my local machines (granted, they are configured a bit differently and not running Plesk). I truly appreciate your thoughts in advance!
Best regards,
Chris
EDIT: I watched closely as the virus scan was running today and there wasn't an issue. I'm guessing the virus scan thing is unrelated to Apache performance. Now I just need to figure out why zip and gzip tasks are taking overt Apache....
I could use some ideas from awesome minds on what could be going on with a growing issue on my web server. It's a dedicated server with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM, of which most of it is not affected during the issues I'm having.
When I first started using my web server with Parallels installed, I could make a decently timed backup of my 5GB website via Parallels Plesk Panel 11.0.9. I just checked all the boxes in a directory via the File Manager interface and all was combined into a .zip I could download. Today, I tried the same thing on my growing 8.6GB website, and it seems to hang on the page forever, SLOWLY archiving the site using 50% of a single CPU from what I can tell. At the same time, websites stop being delivered with an internal server error shown in web browsers.
Separate from Plesk, if I ssh in and run gzip on the site folder, I get the same effect. Early this morning I also started receiving website performance alerts when a virus scan was in progress.
Any thoughts on what could be causing Apache to behave like this? Could it be fighting with other processes or just stepping back for any process to take over? Could there be a directory that doesn't like to be backed up while Apache is running e.g. a log file or something (didn't see anything huge where logs were stored, separate from website files folder)?
I'd be interested to know what you think. I can't seem to reproduce this issue on my local machines (granted, they are configured a bit differently and not running Plesk). I truly appreciate your thoughts in advance!
Best regards,
Chris
EDIT: I watched closely as the virus scan was running today and there wasn't an issue. I'm guessing the virus scan thing is unrelated to Apache performance. Now I just need to figure out why zip and gzip tasks are taking overt Apache....
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