Just got off the phone with Arvixe. They took a look at my server and saw that the site was hitting XML.php and member_menu_queries.php hundreds of times each, bogging my site down and using up all of my Dedicated server's resources!
After renaming these two files, my site is now lightening fast and so far so good, no more DB connection failed errors..
Anyone have any clues about this? Anyone know what member_menu_queries.php does? I see now that the XML.php file is for the Ray modules, as none of the Ray products work right now while it's renamed.
here are the notes from tonight's call with Arvixe that I had:
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Posted On: 28 Jan 2010 10:04 PM
Greetings,
Your XML.php file was being hammered.
I went into your server and renamed XML.php to xml.php.baks to bring the load down on the server. Here are the stats before I renamed the file:
top - 21:49:28 up 4 days, 23:28, 1 user, load average: 20.24, 18.81, 19.74
Tasks: 313 total, 10 running, 302 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 19.7%sy, 79.4%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2075256k total, 1643272k used, 431984k free, 56396k buffers
Swap: 4128664k total, 80k used, 4128584k free, 835772k cached
16526 12440 churdle 508 19 4 40644 24m 6444 R 12.9 1.2 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/profile.php
25948 25924 mysql 101 31 6 163m 40m 5112 R 4.1 2.0 154:16 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/churdle2.ded
16480 15594 churdle 508 20 4 31908 15m 6356 R 2.3 0.7 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16529 12438 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5840 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16536 12279 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5832 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16537 8417 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5832 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16552 4591 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5860 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16561 14103 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5832 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16562 6484 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5832 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16563 15609 churdle 508 22 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16564 11229 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5832 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/modules/index.php
16568 3625 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16572 14081 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16587 12212 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5860 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16588 379 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5860 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16589 3698 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5856 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16590 13968 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5852 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/member_menu_queries.php
16591 1277 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16593 13829 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16594 9832 churdle 508 29 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16595 32438 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5860 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16596 15913 churdle 508 22 4 26372 11m 5840 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16604 13833 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5864 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16605 11210 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16606 22764 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16608 15568 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16610 15610 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5836 S 2.3 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16535 1871 churdle 508 24 4 26372 11m 5856 S 1.8 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16560 5452 churdle 508 20 4 26372 11m 5836 S 1.8 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16565 26488 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5860 S 1.8 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16566 3168 churdle 508 23 4 26372 11m 5860 S 1.8 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
16567 15643 churdle 508 21 4 26372 11m 5836 S 1.8 0.6 0:00 /usr/bin/php /home/churdle/public_html/furriesxtreme/flash/XML.php
After renaming this file, your MySQL issues went away and you was once again able to access PHPMyAdmin.
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Now my site is back up, but now the Ray mods don't work! I want to change this back, but I'm afraid I'm going to get slammed again with a ton of processes. Any ideas??