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We have a Drupal website that runs on Apache 2.2 and uses mysql database and php. It runs on a VmWare server with 1gb of Ram and 4 processors. But we are experiencing slowness when connecting to the website, we believe it's a network issue because we did a lot of testing on those servers, the database server running mysql and application server running the drupal website, but everything seemed normal. Those apps running on windows server 2008.

What could cause the network traffic to slowdown?

Prashant Shrivastava

If you are running with 1GB RAM then I will suggest to increase this ASAP as if more and more people will connect this will become slower.However I am not sure if have done already but you need to consider many things before running MySQL on a virtual platform.

For Now I suggest just add RAM and enjoy :).

klajdi

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Prashantmona

I meant 4gb already on the server not 1gb my mistake. What should i consider running MySql on a virtual platform. With still 4gb and it still runs slow. What could be the issue?

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Michael Knight

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klajdi

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Michael

The changes you already mentioned are done. And also we are using eAccelerator and some other optimization changes in Mysql. We run the same setup on a testing environment but on physical servers and not on virtual environment with VmWare.

So we are thinking it's more of a network issue. What is a good open source to monitor the lan traffic and debug the issue?

Thanks,

Prashant Shrivastava

Try this : http://www.ethereal.com/download.html