i posted this on vB.com yesterday, but no one has replied... I could really use some help in trying to diagnoss this. ------------------- Been up and running on my new box for about a week now. Today, i've run into a couple hiccups where it will just lock up for about 20 seconds, and then be back to normal. Once I can get back in, load is low (~1) mem usage is normal (28%) swap file is minmal (1-3%) Is there a log i can look at to find out what's happeneing? (I'm new to being unmanaged) server info: Processor Information Processor #1 Vendor: AuthenticAMD Processor #1 Name: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Processor #1 speed: 2009.265 MHz Processor #1 cache size: 1024 KB Processor #2 Vendor: AuthenticAMD Processor #2 Name: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Processor #2 speed: 2009.265 MHz Processor #2 cache size: 1024 KB Memory Information Memory: 2052140k/2096256k available (1662k kernel code, 39488k reserved, 1274k data, 228k init, 1178752k highmem) System Information Linux sv01.skeyhost.com 2.4.21-37.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:24:00 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Physcial Disks Current Memory Usage total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2056864 2009904 46960 0 67120 1284200 -/+ buffers/cache: 658584 1398280 Swap: 4096564 57416 4039148 Total: 6153428 2067320 4086108 Current Disk Usage Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 64G 7.2G 54G 12% / /dev/sda1 99M 15M 80M 16% /boot none 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev/shm /usr/tmpDSK 485M 8.2M 452M 2% /tmp /tmp 485M 8.2M 452M 2% /var/tmp Service Status cpsrvdup Server Load0.37 (2 cpus) Memory Used33.1 % Swap Used1.40 % Disk sda3 (/) 12 % Disk sda1 (/boot) 16 % if you need anything else to troubleshoot, let me know and i can post it. Thanks!
Have you been able to login to ssh and check the load and other things at the time when the server stopped website serving? The temporary issue could be related to a cronjob running at specific intervals, but you can help yourself only if you get a chance to check what's going on the server at that time. Or checking cron logs might provide some clue.
What do you mean by "lock up"? I had some dns problems with my new vps server so maybe this is your case. If by any chance you have Direct Admin you can find log files under Admin lever->Log viewer. Else ssh as root and find the log files.