Site slows down to crawl until cache is cleared

[Brent W Peterson]

I am running a Magento site under Litespeed. After a day the site slows down until I clear the cache folder and suddenly it comes back.

The cache gets written as nobody.

 

[webizen]

how many cache files in the cache folder before you clear it? you can try mount the cache folder to /dev/shm and see any difference.

 

[Brent W Peterson]

There are maybe 10,000 files, I have a low traffic site on the same server without the problem, or at least that Iknow of

 

[Brent W Peterson]

I looked at my cache dir this morning and noticed that all the folders where written as nobody:nobody except one which was root:root?

 

[webizen]

your lsws is running as nobody. so the cache files are supposed to be owned by nobody:nobody. is the one owned by root generated at a different time or the name looks different from the rest?

There are maybe 10,000 files, I have a low traffic site on the same server without the problem, or at least that Iknow of

run 'top' from command line and see if your server has higher i/o wait when site is slow (before you clear the cache files). if so, you want to purge your cache more often or move your cache folder to shm as suggested earlier.

 

[Brent W Peterson]

Yes, the load on the server is VERY high and purging CACHE immediately solves the problem.

Thanks for your help