Slow VPS

[青山 素子]

Not a hardware issue, an OS issue. Did you recently do any updates to the system? The init process should be using 0 CPU.

Old article, but some info on debugging init: Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: init's high CPU usage (2.0.23)

[_Ziggy_]

I have had an automatic update that went wrong.

After the update:
1. The "init" showed up on my http://www.bluesforum.nl/status.php
2. I cannot start ClamAV
3. The memory usage has dropped about 25%

[_Ziggy_]

On # ps aux | less the output is:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  5.4  0.1   2084   652 ?        Ss   Jun04 192:38 init [3]


Does this mean that the runlevel is [3]?  On http://www.bluesforum.nl/status.php it still says "init (1)... 

Besides ClamAV everything else on the server seems to be ok.

[青山 素子]

**snip**
Does this mean that the runlevel is [3]?  On http://www.bluesforum.nl/status.php it still says "init (1)... 

Yes, the number after "init" in the output is the runlevel. The 1 in status.php is the number of processes with that name.

CPU usage still seems a bit high, however. Not sure where to advise you to start as I've not encountered this type of situation before.

[_Ziggy_]

Not a hardware issue, an OS issue. Did you recently do any updates to the system?

This was the update that started the problems:

1.  mysql  5.0.77-4.el5_5.3  os  applied
2.  mysql-devel  5.0.77-4.el5_5.3  os  applied
3.  mysql-server  5.0.77-4.el5_5.3  os  applied

[_Ziggy_]

My VPS seems to be running now very well.
I have spend a lot of time adjusting the mysql settings.

I don't now what kind of improvements I should do now, so if anyone has suggestions, please let me know.

http://www.bluesforum.nl/status2.php
http://www.bluesforum.nl/apc.php