Web Pannel is hogging up the entire cpu

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#1 Fri, 02/29/2008 - 22:17
ptaylor187916@g...

Web Pannel is hogging up the entire cpu

I am running the current version of your panel on the current version of Debian and why is hogging up the entire cpu? How can I fix this problem. I just installed debian today, so nothing else other then the pannel is running with the files that the script installed.

Mon, 03/03/2008 - 14:36
DanLong

More info please..........

go to the webmin/system/processes and print out the process/cpu

make sure you didn't throw some websites prone to PHP exploits on the server. THe only time I've seen the CPU maxed was before I clamped down a server and the hacks were in within30 minutes setting up IRC connections. Check your access logs.

Mon, 03/03/2008 - 16:52 (Reply to #2)
ptaylor187916@g...

<b>DanLong wrote:</b>
<div class='quote'>More info please..........

go to the webmin/system/processes and print out the process/cpu

make sure you didn't throw some websites prone to PHP exploits on the server. THe only time I've seen the CPU maxed was before I clamped down a server and the hacks were in within30 minutes setting up IRC connections. Check your access logs.</div>

I can not find this

Open the System Settings category on the left menu, then click on Module Config.
Change Preload Virtualmin libraries at startup? to No

Under system and Module config in the pull down

Mon, 03/03/2008 - 18:21 (Reply to #3)
DanLong

at the top of the frame it says webmin, click that to get the webmin menus

Mon, 03/03/2008 - 18:58 (Reply to #4)
ptaylor187916@g...

Please check the next post I did. I gave you some more details of the area I checked for those settings and they do not exist.

Tue, 03/04/2008 - 05:16 (Reply to #5)
DanLong

Okay, very plainly. If you are in the VM frame and find the system settings and module config then yoiu will also see at the very top the word &quot;webmin&quot; , click on that. Then the frame at the left will fill up with the webmin menu, and that is where you'll find the system settings.

Tue, 03/04/2008 - 13:06 (Reply to #6)
ptaylor187916@g...

I am under configuration &amp; modules --&gt; Webmin modules and which one do I need to select

Configurable options for Virtualmin Virtual Servers (GPL) (Webmin modules available to server administrators)
BIND DNS Server (for DNS domain) Yes No
Virtual Email (for mailboxes and aliases) Yes No
Apache Webserver (for virtual host) Yes No
Webalizer Logfile Analysis (for website's logs) Yes No
MySQL Database Server (for database) Yes No
PostgreSQL Database Server (for database) Yes No

Tue, 03/04/2008 - 13:28 (Reply to #7)
DanLong

You continue to go to virtualmin settings, STOP!

Logout, then login again.

immediately, at the top of the left frame is the word WEBMIN, click that. THen click system then click running processes, then at the top click CPU

that will list out all the running processes at that moment with CPU % usage.

Mon, 03/03/2008 - 14:50
Joe
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As Dan mentioned, it's really hard to guess with so little information--ordinarily, Virtualmin isn't terribly CPU hungry. Memory usage can be an issue on low memory systems, which could cause swap grinding, which might look like heavy CPU usage. We have a guide for reducing memory usage, here:

http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,virtualmin_on_low_memory_syst...

There are a few things Virtualmin does that are CPU intensive, particularly on virtualized systems:

collectinfo.pl is pretty hungry, and runs every five minutes, I think, by default. You may want to reduce the frequency to every hour or so. The information on the System Information page will be less up to date, but if CPU usage is a problem, it's a good option.

Spam and AV are very resource intensive. But, if you just installed Virtualmin, it's not gonna be the source of trouble.

I dunno. I should just stop trying to guess, as we really need more information--use top or the Webmin System Processes module, as Dan suggested, to give us a clue about what is actually using a lot of CPU.

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