tailwatchd failed - Memory overload

We have received many email with the following notification:

"tailwatchd failed @ Thu Aug 20 00:35:01 2009. A restart was attempted automagically.

Service Check Method: [check command] tailwatchd is not running"

Our hosting capacity is a VPS with:

Storage (+ 1GB free for OS)         15GB       
Bandwidth                400GB       
Guaranteed RAM      256+ MB       
Max RAM                 12GB       
Guaranteed CPU      208.8+ Mhz   
Max CPU                 2x3 Ghz       
IP Addresses           3

Virtuozzo Power Panel - Recourses MEMORY

Primary System Parameters




Parameter Current Use Soft Limit Hard Limit Units Description
numproc 136 n/a 300 pcs Number of processes and kernel-level threads
numtcpsock 55 n/a 250 pcs Number of TCP sockets
numothersock 80 n/a 250 pcs Number of non-TCP sockets
vmguarpages 0 65,536 maximum 4KB pages Memory allocation guarantee
avnumproc n/a n/a 150 pcs Average number of processes
Secondary System Parameters



Parameter Current Use Soft Limit Hard Limit Units Description
kmemsize 14,443,548 45,634,027 50,197,429 Bytes Size of non-swappable kernel memory
tcpsndbuf 0.59 5 10 MB Total size of send buffers for TCP sockets
tcprcvbuf 0.64 5 10 MB Total size of receive buffers for TCP sockets
othersockbuf 27.20 1,468 3,968 KB Total size of UNIX-domain socket buffers, UDP and other datagram protocols send buffers
dgramrcvbuf 0 256 256 KB Total size of receive buffers of UDP and other datagram protocols
oomguarpages 104,951 65,536 maximum 4KB pages Out-of-memory guarantee
privvmpages 225,379 262,144 262,144 4KB pages

Size of Container private memory

Also the Dolphin database is 13MB in size.

-bash-3.00# mysqladmin processlist
+------+----------------+-----------+--------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+------+----------------+-----------+--------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 3 | leechprotect | localhost | leechprotect | Sleep | 3170 | | |
| 11 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 631 | | |
| 18 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 26 | | |
| 34 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 179 | | |
| 78 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 33 | | |
| 164 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 559 | | |
| 333 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 286 | | |
| 507 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 826 | | |
| 576 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 1382 | | |
| 639 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 366 | | |
| 1160 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 772 | | |
| 1186 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 171 | | |
| 1349 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 1776 | | |
| 1414 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 660 | | |
| 3841 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 51 | | |
| 4410 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 1596 | | |
| 5815 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 597 | | |
| 6158 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 25 | | |
| 7548 | mysite_user | localhost | mysite_614 | Sleep | 120 | | |
| 8184 | eximstats | localhost | eximstats | Sleep | 160 | | |
| 8556 | root | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist |
+------+----------------+-----------+--------------+---------+------+-------+-------------

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Question?

Is possible that lies in the MySQL connections, since Dolphin uses permanent connection towards the MySQL server every connection uses memory and CPU time.

What do you recommend?

Quote · 20 Aug 2009
 
 
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