We have server P4/3,2GHz, RAM 2GB, OS Mandriva 2006 with all latest updates, Apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1.12, PHP 5.0.4 and about 300 users (very few simultaniously working with Moodle). Users are very often randomly logged out ("Server error..."). Session test runs well.
Also, sometimes pages load very slowly (halt), but when I turn on the performance info in the footer, there are values in miliseconds and after refresh in browser, the page shows immediately.
Has anybody the same experience and a solution or tips, what should I check/upgrade/downgrade...? We are using Moodle 1.6.2.
Thanx in advance.
I don't mean to say this is the root of your problem, but PHP 5.0.x is know to be buggy and should not be used with Moodle.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Hi
We are having the same problem and we are also runing php 5.04 and Moodle 1.62.
We are planning to upgrade to php 5.1.2 so that we can use the APC cache facility which will hopefully quicken up the page loading on the server.
i happen to experience a similar problem with Mark Little:
Very often (every 10 about ten minutes) my apache server becomes busy and the website stops responding. as a result an error page appears on the client. when i stop appache (through XAMP control) and restart, the page loads again.
What would the problem be in this case? any ideas or suggestions?
By the way i am using XP with Moodle 1.6.2 and XAMP whole integrated package installation.
Apolis
Very often (every 10 about ten minutes) my apache server becomes busy and the website stops responding. as a result an error page appears on the client. when i stop appache (through XAMP control) and restart, the page loads again.
What would the problem be in this case? any ideas or suggestions?
By the way i am using XP with Moodle 1.6.2 and XAMP whole integrated package installation.
Apolis
In reply to Polis Aniftos
Re: Very often random logouts and page loading halts
by Arnor Kristjansson -
I had this problem until I upped the MaxClients value in Apache2....
In reply to Arnor Kristjansson
Re: Very often random logouts and page loading halts
by Polis Aniftos -
How did you do this Arnor?
Polis,
We also use LAMPP, and you will find the maxclients and other like settings here in a default LAMPP install: /opt/lampp/etc/extras/httpd-mpm.conf
You will need to know how your server is set to use which MPM, since you will see this file is divided into settings depending on the type. For Linux, prefork or worker are the options. You can use the apachectl -l (that's an EL) script (in /opt/lampp/bin) to show you this.
A good place to get info on these settings is: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mpm_common.html#maxclients
The LAMPP defaults on our box (prefork) are:
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
-- Randy
We also use LAMPP, and you will find the maxclients and other like settings here in a default LAMPP install: /opt/lampp/etc/extras/httpd-mpm.conf
You will need to know how your server is set to use which MPM, since you will see this file is divided into settings depending on the type. For Linux, prefork or worker are the options. You can use the apachectl -l (that's an EL) script (in /opt/lampp/bin) to show you this.
A good place to get info on these settings is: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mpm_common.html#maxclients
The LAMPP defaults on our box (prefork) are:
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
-- Randy