Operating system: CentOS 7 (64bits) + Webmin and virtualmin OS version: 7 (64bits)
Hello,
I do not know what problems I have in my virtualmin but every X days it saturates and cannot even be accessed and I have to do a forced restart. To fix this at the moment I have added a cron to restart once a day, but I don’t know why it is not working. I have tried it by running it and it works, but when the time comes it does not restart. Can you help me?
Or better yet, try to figure out what’s causing the problem with CentOS. Since I started using KernelCare and no longer have to reboot for kernel updates, I measure my uptime in months and years. A Linux machine that bogs down and needs to be rebooted every few days has a problem somewhere.
If it’s a public shared Web server, my first bet would be some poorly-written script combined with inadequate resources and/or overly generous resource limits.
An Atom N2800 and 2 gigs of RAM is enough to run CentOS 7 and Virtualmin, but not much more.
When you say “three webs,” that’s pretty vague That CPU / RAM combo should be able to run three static HTML sites without much problem, but three Wordpress or other database-driven sites could start stressing it, especially if they’re popular.
I suggest you install htop and iotop so when your server gets bogged down, you can get a better idea of what’s causing it.
yum install epel-release
yum update
then
yum -y install htop
and
yum -y install iotop
Also. the fact that your server hardware is less-than-bleeding-edge doesn’t rule out a poorly-coded script that’s pushing it over the edge of the resource cliff, or a scheduled backup that running too many threads and overworking the disk (which is already pretty busy caching). Looking at it while it’s struggling is the next step in understanding why.
