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I'm running a Ubuntu 14 server with LAMP on virtual cloud hosting (CityCloud).

The server is usually doing very well with response time<0.5s. However, the problems start at peak hours, mainly Monday-Wednesday/Thursday, with response times at around 7-8 seconds or more. These times were more or less halved by passing to worker MPM and php-fpm, thanks to @drew010 over at stackoverflow.

Now, I would like to see if there are any last tweaks I could do to get rid of those remaining 3s of avg load time during busy hours.

According to Google Analytics: The website has got some ~5 million page views per month, and during peak hour some 12-13.000 thousand page views per hour.

Here's my setup:

  • Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
  • PHP Version 5.5.9, FPM/FastCGI
  • 4 CPU cores
  • 8 RAM
  • Limited to 1 Gbps bandwidth and 1 TB transfer/month
  • < 6% CPU usage during peak hours
  • Memory used < 2GB
  • ~2M txbps during peak hours
  • Static content is served from a separate subdomain (same machine) with expires headers "access plus 1 month".
  • MySQL running on the same machine.
  • MySQL queries have been measured to be fast and not an issue.

Obviously, 4 cores/8 RAM is excessive. My intentions are to fall back to at most 2 cores/4 RAM, if performance is good.

This is a netstat output during peak hour:

$ netstat -ant | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      3 CLOSING
      5 LISTEN
      8 FIN_WAIT1
     69 LAST_ACK
     80 SYN_RECV
    117 ESTABLISHED
    147 FIN_WAIT2
   1028 TIME_WAIT

Some server-info:

In file: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_worker.conf
  13: StartServers 2
  14: MinSpareThreads 25
  15: MaxSpareThreads 75
  16: ThreadLimit 64
  17: ThreadsPerChild 25
  18: MaxRequestWorkers 150

Some kernel option values:

/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn: 128
/proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog: 1000
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog: 256
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range: 32768   61000

MySQL "SHOW GLOBAL STATUS":

Aborted_clients 7
Aborted_connects    14
Binlog_cache_disk_use   0
Binlog_cache_use    0
Binlog_stmt_cache_disk_use  0
Binlog_stmt_cache_use   0
Bytes_received  7324492238
Bytes_sent  33143229342
Com_admin_commands  0
Com_assign_to_keycache  0
Com_alter_db    0
Com_alter_db_upgrade    0
Com_alter_event 0
Com_alter_function  0
Com_alter_procedure 0
Com_alter_server    0
Com_alter_table 2
Com_alter_tablespace    0
Com_analyze 0
Com_begin   0
Com_binlog  0
Com_call_procedure  0
Com_change_db   1277679
Com_change_master   0
Com_check   0
Com_checksum    0
Com_commit  0
Com_create_db   0
Com_create_event    0
Com_create_function 0
Com_create_index    0
Com_create_procedure    0
Com_create_server   0
Com_create_table    0
Com_create_trigger  0
Com_create_udf  0
Com_create_user 0
Com_create_view 0
Com_dealloc_sql 0
Com_delete  19
Com_delete_multi    0
Com_do  0
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Com_drop_function   0
Com_drop_index  0
Com_drop_procedure  0
Com_drop_server 0
Com_drop_table  0
Com_drop_trigger    0
Com_drop_user   0
Com_drop_view   0
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Com_execute_sql 0
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Com_grant   0
Com_ha_close    0
Com_ha_open 0
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Com_help    0
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Com_insert_select   0
Com_install_plugin  0
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Com_prepare_sql 0
Com_purge   0
Com_purge_before_date   0
Com_release_savepoint   0
Com_rename_table    0
Com_rename_user 0
Com_repair  0
Com_replace 7
Com_replace_select  0
Com_reset   0
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Com_show_contributors   0
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Com_show_errors 0
Com_show_fields 381
Com_show_function_status    5
Com_show_grants 5
Com_show_keys   40
Com_show_master_status  43
Com_show_open_tables    0
Com_show_plugins    0
Com_show_privileges 0
Com_show_procedure_status   5
Com_show_processlist    1099
Com_show_profile    0
Com_show_profiles   0
Com_show_relaylog_events    0
Com_show_slave_hosts    0
Com_show_slave_status   1118
Com_show_status 1120
Com_show_storage_engines    0
Com_show_table_status   366
Com_show_tables 77
Com_show_triggers   324
Com_show_variables  1135
Com_show_warnings   0
Com_slave_start 0
Com_slave_stop  0
Com_stmt_close  0
Com_stmt_execute    0
Com_stmt_fetch  0
Com_stmt_prepare    0
Com_stmt_reprepare  0
Com_stmt_reset  0
Com_stmt_send_long_data 0
Com_truncate    0
Com_uninstall_plugin    0
Com_unlock_tables   18
Com_update  41612
Com_update_multi    0
Com_xa_commit   0
Com_xa_end  0
Com_xa_prepare  0
Com_xa_recover  0
Com_xa_rollback 0
Com_xa_start    0
Compression OFF
Connections 1277451
Created_tmp_disk_tables 731
Created_tmp_files   9
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Delayed_errors  0
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Delayed_writes  0
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Handler_rollback    0
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Innodb_buffer_pool_reads    196
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Performance_schema_table_handles_lost   0
Performance_schema_table_instances_lost 0
Performance_schema_thread_classes_lost  0
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Prepared_stmt_count 0
Qcache_free_blocks  2242
Qcache_free_memory  7441152
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Ssl_accepts 0
Ssl_callback_cache_hits 0
Ssl_cipher  
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Ssl_finished_accepts    0
Ssl_finished_connects   0
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Ssl_session_cache_timeouts  0
Ssl_sessions_reused 0
Ssl_used_session_cache_entries  0
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Ssl_version 
Table_locks_immediate   9116984
Table_locks_waited  178
Tc_log_max_pages_used   0
Tc_log_page_size    0
Tc_log_page_waits   0
Threads_cached  6
Threads_connected   2
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iostat executed during peak hour:

$ iostat -xdk 1
Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    4.00    0.00    4.00   4.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    2.00     0.00     8.00     8.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   17.00     0.00    96.00    11.29     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    34.00    0.00    3.00     0.00   152.00   101.33     0.00    1.33    0.00    1.33   1.33   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00    12.00    24.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   20.00     0.00   152.00    15.20     0.02    1.20    0.00    1.20   0.60   1.20
vda               0.00    44.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   188.00   188.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    2.00     0.00     8.00     8.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    4.00    0.00    4.00   4.00   0.40
vda               0.00    74.00    0.00  146.00     0.00   908.00    12.44     0.30    2.08    0.00    2.08   0.05   0.80
vda               0.00    46.00    0.00    3.00     0.00   200.00   133.33     0.00    1.33    0.00    1.33   1.33   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    4.00     0.00    16.00     8.00     0.00    1.00    0.00    1.00   1.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   20.00     0.00   232.00    23.20     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    41.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   176.00   176.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   17.82     0.00   118.81    13.33     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    42.00    0.00    4.00     0.00   188.00    94.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   12.00     0.00    60.00    10.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    39.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   168.00   168.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   16.00     0.00    76.00     9.50     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    32.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   140.00   140.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   18.00     0.00   100.00    11.11     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    30.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   132.00   132.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   12.00     0.00    48.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    37.00    0.00    3.00     0.00   164.00   109.33     0.01    2.67    0.00    2.67   2.67   0.80
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    48.00    0.00  130.00     0.00   744.00    11.45     0.24    1.88    0.00    1.88   0.06   0.80
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    35.00    0.00    4.00     0.00   160.00    80.00     0.00    1.00    0.00    1.00   1.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   19.00     0.00   172.00    18.11     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    4.00    0.00    4.00   4.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    39.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   168.00   168.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   25.00     0.00   184.00    14.72     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    48.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   204.00   204.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   18.00     0.00   104.00    11.56     0.00    0.22    0.00    0.22   0.22   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.02   24.00    0.00   24.00  24.00   2.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    39.00    0.00    4.00     0.00   176.00    88.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    1.00     0.00     4.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   17.00     0.00   100.00    11.76     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    38.00    0.00    3.00     0.00   168.00   112.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    2.00     0.00     8.00     8.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   16.00     0.00   100.00    12.50     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    40.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   172.00   172.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00   10.00     0.00    64.00    12.80     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    34.00    0.00    2.00     0.00   144.00   144.00     0.00    2.00    0.00    2.00   2.00   0.40
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    2.00     0.00    12.00    12.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00    55.00    0.00  117.00     0.00   732.00    12.51     0.28    2.43    0.00    2.43   0.10   1.20
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
vda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00

Any help is appreciated! :-)

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  • Can you install sysstat and enable the sar for statistics collection? Also, see with iostat -xdk 1 at the peak period how busy are your block devices. Other thing, post the show global status of your mysql server here for analysis, please! Maybe your mysql are not properly tuned so your VFS and block devices may be doing to much work.
    – fgbreel
    Oct 5, 2015 at 19:09
  • @fgbreel I've got munin running since last week, is that enough for the statistics part or do you prefer sysstat?
    – jonr
    Oct 5, 2015 at 19:39
  • both are useful, just see how are the io_wait on system graphs and how busy are your disks on the storage graphs.
    – fgbreel
    Oct 5, 2015 at 19:53
  • @fgbreel I added the show global status and the iostat -xdk 1 results to the question. As for sysstat/munin, I was going to add some graphs to the question but I need more rep before I can do so... Current values during peak hour at Average latency is Device IO time: 391.32u, IO Wait time: 3.73m, Read IO Wait time: 0.00, Write IO Wait time: 3.73. Device and Write are stable thru 24h, Read has got sporadic peaks independent of peak hours. IO Wait is not visible on the graph.
    – jonr
    Oct 6, 2015 at 14:12
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    @fgbreel From your comment, I did some research and finally tweaked: net.core.somaxconn: 128 => 1024, net.core.netdev_max_backlog: 1000 => 65536, net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog: 256 => 2048. Also in mpm_worker.conf, StartServers 3, MinSpareThreads 75, MaxSpareThreads 250, ThreadLimit 64, ThreadsPerChild 25, MaxRequestWorkers 400. Those remaining peaks have now been removed during busy hours. :-) If you add an answer, I will accept it.
    – jonr
    Oct 18, 2015 at 11:24

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You need to increase /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn. The default is 128. The value should be raised substantially to support bursts of request.

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    Not much point in doing that unless you increase Apache listen backlog too. Given the number of connections in TIME_WAIT, you should check net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1 and net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1.
    – symcbean
    Oct 28, 2015 at 0:35
  • Well remembered! net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse is a good option and less aggressive than net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle. Also need to take care with NAT, but is not the case! :D
    – fgbreel
    Oct 28, 2015 at 13:24

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