On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings. > > Over this month so far, we have had mailman01 alert 27 times about swap > space being low. When we look, it is indeed low, but there is still > lots of memory available, so a swapoff -a && swapon -a "fixes" it. > > My theory as to what is happening is that from time to time there's a > Django thread that takes up lots and lots of memory, causing the > machine to swap out other things, then it completes, leaving lots of > things swapped out, but memory available. I have in fact seen the > web-ui take up a ton of memory. > > Right now we have the webui set to: > > maximum-requests=1000 processes=4 threads=4 I would say to consider moving this down to 100 max requests. > > We may want to adjust that? Perhaps less processes and more threads? > > However, one simple thing we can do right now is to just throw more > memory at it. The virthost it's on has a lot of memory to spare, so it > would be trivial to just double it's memory and see if the issue goes > away. (from 16GB to 32GB). This would require a quick reboot, but > downtime should be very short. > > Thoughts? +1s? +1 for memory bump. > > kevin > > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list > infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
